Re: GNOME with new glib/gtk?

[Conrad Steenberg <conrad srl caltech edu>]

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Mohammad Abdin wrote:
> Installing GNOME took me quite a while, anyway, is there an EASY way of
> 'upgrading' I have preserved all my OLD  'tar xvfz' directories so I can do
> a 'make uninstall' if I want to, but when I download the new GTK/GLIB/GNOME
> stuff do I have to do a 'make uninstall' on the old stuff and then a 'make
> install' (do I have to do that for ALL the stuff that I installed??? Wow)
> or is there something much simpler like simplely tar xvfz'ing the new
> package and then typing 'make upgrade'
> ?
> Thanx, any help appreciated.

Err... use the rpm's the gnome folks put out. If you're on a debian system
there should be .deb files availible from debian soon afterwards. If
you're on a Slackware or other unix system you will unfortunately have to
repeat the above procedure.

Conrad