Re: That close to upgrading Gnome. =

[Ron Smits <rons ronsmits com>]

If I understand you correctly you have already compiled garnome. So you
are almost there. 

If you are not running gdm (or xdm) you can logon as your preferred user
and do the following:
- set up the path to make sure that /home/temp/garnome/bin is before
/home/temp/gnome/bin.
- set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to /home/temp/garnome/lib (of add
this to /etc/ld.so.conf)
- then make a .xinitrc file in your home directory that starts
/home/temp/garnome/bin/gnome-session

And voila you are there

Ron


On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 21:07, alex wrote:
> So close and yet so far.   I have garnome-0.18.3 in
> /home/temp/garnome/  and gnome in /home/temp/gnome/ and am
> trying to figure out the next step.   I have printed out
> garnome's README but my brain's semantics translator can't
> handle the task of understanding it enough so that I
> dare to take the next step.   I also read the information on
> the recommended websites in README but apparently I don't
> have the experience or education to get much from it. Maybe 
> it's my age that gets in the way--84 and it's a big jump 
> from Commodore64 Basic to Progeny/Debian.
> 
> 
> The following files are in garnome:
> 
> ChangeLog*  README*     gar.conf.mk*   gar.mk *   gstreamer/
> Makefile*   category.mk*  gar.lib.mk*  gnome/     kde/
> 
> There are 60 tar.gz.tar files in  gnome 2.0-2.0.3 and one
> gz file
> 
> Some questions:
> 
> Are garnome and gnome positioned in suitable directories
>    /home/temp/garnome    and /home/temp/gnome  ?
> 
> Is it necessary to remove the existing gnome files before
> starting the installation of the new files?
> 
> Can someone give me a clue or two as to what the next few 
> steps should be to upgrade Gnome?  If you just list 
> commands, I can fill in the explanations myself.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Alex
>