Re: Yet another newbie - End of story

[Bruce Stephens <bruce cenderis demon co uk>]

Steen Rabol <rabol@get2net.dk> writes:

> I followed the read me/install file, and did a ./configure, make and
> make install After compiling glib, gtk+ and imlib, my next package
> was gtk-engines, and during ./configure it told me that it needed
> gtk+ 1.1.13 or higher, then I gave up.

Oddly, I've been compiling on a RedHat5.1 system for some time,
installing everything in /usr/local/gnome/*, without incident.  

Until yesterday, when gnome-libs broke.  I don't know why, but for
some reason, /usr/lib was being looked in before /usr/local/gnome/lib,
and it didn't seem easy to reorder that.  Eventually, I just gave up
and removed (using rpm) glib, gtk+, and things that depended on them.
After that, everything's compiling OK again.

> I've spend the last two days trying to install GNOME, first by
> getting the RPM's then I located a mirror containg the
> /pub/sources/latest - why keep sources in different directories when
> they are the "latest" ?

They're arranged logically.  latest contains symbolic links to the
latest versions.

> My personal conclusion is that GNOME is not for novice users.

No, not yet.  It will be, though.  It's not bad, now.