Installing Gnome the correct way:
1. Open a browser window and point it at Gnome.org
2. Download the tarballs from that page to a directory
somewhere.
3. For each tarball, do the following:
tar zxvf <tarball>
cd <newly created directory>
./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome && make && make check && make install && ldconfig -v
4. The Gnome audio stuff will fail is you use the above. Check
the 'README' or
the 'INSTALL' file to find out how to install it (it's
simple).
You should install the tarballs in this order:
- audiofile
- esound
- glib
- gtk+
- imlib
- gtk-engines
- ORBit
- gnome-libs
- libgtop
- libxml
- libghttp
- libglade
- gdk-pixbuf
- control-center
- gnome-core
- gnome-applets
- mc
- bug-buddy
- glade
- gnome-python
- user-guide (not necessary IMHO)
- gnome-utils
- gnome-pim
- gnome-media
- gnome-audio
- gnome-print
- gnome-games
- ee
- gnumeric
- gtop
- ggv
- xchat
Remeber to use the ./configure command above! Failure to
do so will spread Gnome all over /usr/local. It's
ugly!
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