If you own a CD copy of Red Hat 5.2 you already have a copy of GNOME. If you look in the /gnome directory on the first CD of Red Hat 5.2 you will find the latest release of GNOME. This version is sufficient for you to get an idea of what GNOME is all about.
Before you install GNOME from the CD you need to make sure you have the xscreensaver installed. You will find the xscreensaver RPM on your Red Hat 5.2 CD in the /RedHat/RPMS/ directory. Simply type
$rpm -Uhv xscreensaver-2.34-1.i386.rpm |
Once you have installed xscreensaver, use the supplied install-gnome script in the /gnome directory on your Red Hat 5.2 CD to automatically install all of the GNOME packages. Type
./install-gnome |