Re: Debian installation of gnome?

[Mark Galassi <rosalia cygnus com>]

    robert> I would compile Gnome from CVS and put it in /usr/local
    robert> rather than use alien, though alien might work it makes me
    robert> nervous.

My tip here is to not use /usr/local, or anything where you have other 
programs installed.  That's because in these experimental stages, it
sometimes helps to completely wipe out your gnome install tree, and it 
also helps to squirrel away a copy when it's stable.

I usually use /opt/gnome as my prefix, so I can do "rm -rf /opt/gnome" 
or "cp -r /opt/gnome /opt/gnome-stable" at will, since there's no
other software in there.