GNOME is a rapidly developing project, and as a consequence there are regular releases of software for GNOME. These releases are the most up to date with the developers' work and are released because we think people want to see the exciting new developments. Since this code is in the process of being written, it can have rough spots. Don't let that stop you from trying it out. Keep in mind that if something doesn't work this week, it will probably be fixed in the next month or so.
Step 1 - Installing support RPMS
GNOME requires the umb-scheme package which is included in Red Hat Linux, but which may not be installed by default. To install this package go to the /RedHat/RPMS/ directory on your Red Hat 5.2 CD and type
rpm -Uvh umb-scheme-3.2-7.i386.rpm |
You need to make sure you have the GIMP toolkit (GTK+) installed as well.
If the GTK toolkit is not installed on your machine, you will find it on the GNOME ftp site.
IMPORTANT: The GTK+-1.0 packages are included to maintain compatibility with applications that use older versions of the GTK. You will need to install the GTK+-1.0 compatibility libraries called GTK+10 and glib10 at the same time as you install GTK+-1.1.2 and glib-1.1.2. If you use Gimp you should keep in mind that version 0.99 will not recompile with the new GTK libraries. Don't worry though, there are new versions of the GTK being developed that will solve these conflicts.
Before installing the new GNOME, it is a good idea to clean out any old GNOME packages you may have installed since GNOME is changing very rapidly.
For the GNOME 0.30 release, it is best if you remove these packages if you have them installed before installing the 0.30 packages:
gnome-games
gnome-admin
Finally (yes we're almost done!) you want to grab the actual GNOME distribution. The latest version is always located at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/redhat/latest/i386/. Download these files and install them in the following order:
glib-1
glib10-1
gtk+-1.1.2
gtk+10-1.0.6-1
imlib
ORBit
gnome-libs
libPropList
libxml
libghttp
libgtop
gnome-core
imlib-cfgeditor
gnome-media
gnome-admin
gnome-utils
ggv
gtop
Some extra items you might want to install are:
grpm - The GNOME RPM front end.
gnumeric - A GNOME Spreadsheet.
ee - Electric Eyes - A graphic viewer.
gnome-games - A group of GNOME games.
yagirc - A good IRC client.
NOTE: There may not always be copies of all of these packages, depending upon their development state. Check back later if a package doesn't currently exist. Keep in mind that although the files are usually in working condition, there is no guarantee.
Step 2 - Enjoy the world of GNOME
Now that you have all of the correct packages and files to run GNOME you will need to install them. Please remember this is a quickly developing project, and there can be lots of debugging information still being output.