Re: I am a Beginner, help please

["Callum McKenzie" <callum spooky-possum org>]

I find jhbuild useful in these situations[1]. Specifically the buildone
command. You still have to have the dependencies installed properly with
buildone, but it stops jhbuild trying to build all the dependencies from
scratch.

In this case something like:
jhbuild buildone gnome-common
jhbuild buildone gnome-games

might be enough to get it all compiling (after you've followed all the
instructions at the link below, up to the 'jhbuild sanitycheck' command).

jhbuild is a little intimidating at first, but saves a lot of hassle later.

'jhbuild run' is also nice for keeping your test and day-to-day
environments separate.

 - Callum

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild