On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 09:57 -0800, Adam Talbot wrote: > Could someone tell me how to verify that it is installed and how to > determine which version I am running? Running gnome-about will tell you what version of GNOME you have on board. Running the various variants of the rpm command will, of course, tell you what versions of what packages you have installed. ++ Aside: Keep in mind that RHEL is one of those "stable but really old" distros, in the same tradition as Debian stable. You'll get security fixes and solutions to crashers backported, but the way of the open source movement is that real fixes happen in new versions and the stuff that Red Hat, Canonical, Debian, SuSE, Sun, etc are shipping as "stable enterprise" versions tends to be more than 2 GNOME cycles old, and that makes them ancient history. Nothing wrong with running them, of course, but the people _writing_ the stuff have moved on, and bug reports about (for example) GNOME 2.8 aren't going to get a whole lot of response from anyone. I would submit that this is a fairly significant structural problem in movements like GNOME - we iterate much faster than the distros are able to package, QA, and qualify, with the result that by the time users actually get their hands on stuff, it's out of date and the developers are no longer working on it. Now, only now, are we starting to see pain reports on GNOME 2.16 from non-developers/non-bleeding-edge people. And in most cases, the codebase that the authors are working on requires GNOME 2.18... and then that's it as far as support of stable goes. Even if not, most of the distros don't do the "if it builds and runs with stable, let's back port it" thing for the obvious reason of finite resources and not wanting to support and QA arbitrary combinations. So, for instance, devhelp 0.13 (a wonderful improvement from 0.12) is not available in Ubuntu version E, which is a shame. AfC Sydney -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Managing Director Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ Management Consultants specializing in strategy, organizational architecture, procedures to survive change, and performance hardening for the people and systems behind the mission critical enterprise. Worldwide: Sydney +61 2 9977 6866 New York +1 646 472 5054 Toronto +1 416 848 6072 London +44 207 1019201
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