Installing Gnome 2.12 in Fedora

[Ian MacGregor]

mooshie wrote:
> wwp wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:07:50 -0500 mooshie <mooshie at bluebottle.com> 
>> wrote:
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>>> Hello all!
>>> I found this nice little tutorial on how to install the newest Gnome 
>>> 2.12 in Fedora Core, it works perfectly! You will definatly notice 
>>> the difference from 2.10! Check it out and let me know how it works 
>>> for you!
>>>
>>> http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Upgrade_your_FC4_box_to_the_latest_Gnome_2.12_desktop 
>>>
>>>
>>> Note: I am not taking credit for writing this, nor am I the technical 
>>> support for it.
>>
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>> Did anyone try to upgrade FC3 to gnome 2.10 from this repos?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
> Not that I am aware of, I tried it on FC4 and it works flawlessly. Its 
> up to you to try it from FC3
> 
I am worried about mixing repos in doing this. I currently use 
Extras/livna and I heard that the nrpms repo replaces core files. Isn't 
this dangerous? I'd love to use the new gnome, but I don't want to take 
a chance on hosing my system because I mixed repos.