Re: request info re upgrading gnome

On date Wednesday 2007-03-14 15:05:48 -0400, Darcy Kahle wrote:
I have a WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 3 system with the original gnome
installed via rpm. (whitebox uses the redhat source rpms as it's base). As
Redhat's Enterprise Linux 3 is getting old, it is looking highly unlikely
that they (or anyone else) will produce rpms of the latest Gnome for that
system, and I would like to upgrade it. Therefore, it looks like I will be
building gnome from source, and I would like some help answering some
questions for that task:

1. What is the recommended method of upgrading an rpm based gnome
installation from the source tarballs?

Uninstall the RPM package (and all the tons of dependencies), download
the source, compile and install following diligently the dependency
order.

2. Do I need to upgrade XFree86 first?

I don't think so, but I'm not an expert, so I can't say it for sure.

3. Is there a howto somewhere that might help me with this task? I have
looked, but found nothing.
4. Are there any potential sinkholes or problem areas that I need to keep my
eyes out for?

Installing gnome from source is not at all a trivial process. If you
can't install from binary packages, consider to upgrade the whole
system.

There was a system for installing from gnome called "Gargnome", but
strangely enough, I couldn't find with a quick google search any link
to its project page, and all the links in the Gnome forum were
inactive.

I appreciate any help that you might provide me. Since I also have the kde
libraries installed, I will likely be upgrading kde from source as well, and
the info that I gleam from this would likely help me with that task as well.

Again, I suggest you to consider to upgrade the system, since the
process of compiling and installing gnome from source is not at all a
trivial task, in the best case it's time consumming.

HTH
--
Stefano Sabatini
Linux user number 337176 (see http://counter.li.org)
_______________________________________________
gnome-list mailing list
gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list

Relevant Pages

  • Re: request info re upgrading gnome
    ... and I would like to upgrade it. ... building gnome from source, and I would like some help answering some ... What is the recommended method of upgrading an rpm based gnome ... Installing gnome from source is not at all a trivial process. ...
    (GNOME)
  • Re: [opensuse] how to update alsa to 1.0.14rc2 on Suse 10.1 with checkinstall?
    ... > But I want to maintain the integrity of the rpm database by creating ... > rpms of those packages using checkinstall. ... > $#>rmmod snd_timer ... > Should I keep both the alsa-1.0.13-0.pm.0 rpm when installing the ...
    (SuSE)
  • Re: [SLE] Help to install Firefox and Flashplayer 7 [Solved]
    ... > |> Thanks for the RPM, I found too the one for Thunderbird, I installed ... Are you installing the tarballs as root? ... First I've to tell you that I use to manage RPMs and tarballs and that I ...
    (SuSE)
  • Re: help - I installed rpm4.0.6 and now nothing works!
    ... The idea of installing rpm4 on Redhat 6.2 ... Updates are always tested on test boxes before reaching the production ... Packaging systems, whether rpm or Debian's apt, *BSD's ... a common problem for us (we don't hand out root permissions on our systems) ...
    (comp.os.linux.misc)
  • Re: difficult rpm problem
    ... shared object file: ... There's no way installing or upgrading something should have broken this. ... As long as some installed package, like oh, say rpm, requires this library, it should never be removed by rpm. ... Even if you upgrade rpm itself, and the upgrade needs a new library, rpm is smart enough to know that the pre-requisites must be installed first, so you don't break the upgrade in the middle. ...
    (Fedora)