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-wassup-
10-19-2002, 10:56 AM
currently i have gnome 1.4 and i want to get gnome 2. i went to get the source code and i found many different .tar.gz files. which one should i get? also do i install it with the normal ./configure, make, make install, make clean process or do i have to do it another way?
Wallex
10-19-2002, 11:15 AM
Go here:
http://www.gnome.org/start/installing/index.php3

And download and install ALL the packages in order (they explain you that in the page). And yes all packages are installed the usual way (configure, make, make install).
You can also install Gnome2 from precompiled packages, if you are interested.

You might have to download some dependecies as well but those should be minimal if you already have Gnome installed.
-wassup-
10-19-2002, 02:33 PM
i didnt see an rpm for suse 8. only saw rpms for older versions of gnome.
Wallex
10-19-2002, 11:58 PM
I've yet to see rpms made for Suse... maybe if those exist, are all in german sites, altough you could try logging on to SuSE's ftp site and search around for the packages. I've heard that mandrake's rpms work well in Suse, and that has been the case so far with me... plus Mandrake's rpms are compiled for the 586 architecture rather than the other distros which use 386.
-wassup-
10-20-2002, 08:35 AM
why is drake starting to compile everything for the 586 instead of i386....are they just guessing no one uses those anymore?
Wallex
10-20-2002, 02:18 PM
The reason Drake uses 586 is because they can. Linux is about choice, there is a distro out there (Arch Linux) which is made with the 686 architecture in mind. It just makes more sense to use a 586 Distro instead of a 386 distro if you can. The reason some distros use 386 is because they want their distros to be installable in even the oldest of machines. If I had to choose a newbie distro I would have gone for Mandrake (and for an advanced one, Gentoo).

EDIT: I would have probably picked Arch for my first distro except that I have no idea how well it ranks among 'newbie' distros... generally speaking newbie distros are called like that because they are extremely easy to install (if you have the right hardware) and maintain through the config apps they provide you and demand minimal to no knowledge of the command line. The most known newbie distros are Mandrake Red-Hat and Suse, I believe.