Gnome Installation Problem

[Brian Clark <brianj ais ais-gwd com>]

Hi guys -

I've been trying to install Gnome on a RedHat 5.2 box. I was using KDE
before I tried to install Gnome (if that makes any difference). KDE was
simple to install, but it just wasn't cutting it. So, I thought that I
would install Gnome because I'd heard great things about it. 

I downloaded every RPM here:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/redhat/latest/i386/

Installed:

umb-scheme package
xscreensaver package
guile package

Then, I went to install Gnome (working in the same dir that I downloaded
into) and I got the following:

[root@localhost]# rpm -Uvh *.rpm
failed dependencies:
        libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by gnome-admin-0.30-1
        libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by yagirc-0.65.6-3
        libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by ggv-0.26-3
        libgnome.so.0 is needed by gnome-admin-0.30-1
        libgnome.so.0 is needed by yagirc-0.65.6-3
        libgnome.so.0 is needed by ggv-0.26-3
        libgnomeui.so.0 is needed by gnome-admin-0.30-1
        libgnomeui.so.0 is needed by yagirc-0.65.6-3
        libgnomeui.so.0 is needed by ggv-0.26-3
        libgdk-1.1.so.2 is needed by gnome-admin-0.30-1
        libgdk-1.1.so.2 is needed by yagirc-0.65.6-3
        libgdk-1.1.so.2 is needed by ggv-0.26-3
        libgtk-1.1.so.2 is needed by gnome-admin-0.30-1
        libgtk-1.1.so.2 is needed by yagirc-0.65.6-3
        libgtk-1.1.so.2 is needed by ggv-0.26-3  
[root@localhost]#

Now, I know this has to be common (and I'm quite new to Linux), because I
got the feeling that I made a common mistake.

My next try was from the RedHat 5.2 CD. I wanted to get the newest versions
from FTP and install those, but that didn't work so I figured I'd try the
cd-rom.

The CD install for Gnome went great, except for the fact that it must have
installed an ancient version on Gnome on the account that I was working
with. I totally bites because every window that I open is stuck in the
top-left corner. Enlightenment wasn't installed from the CD (not by my
choice, but because it wasn't there in the first place!). But, I could see
that it is, in fact Gnome, that was running, with God-knows-what windows
manager.

Finally, being new and coming from a Winblows environment, I said "hey, now
let me go try to install what I downloaded and everything might be fine!"

No such luck:

[root@localhost]# rpm -Uvh *.rpm
failed dependencies:
        libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by gnome-admin-0.30-1
        libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by yagirc-0.65.6-3
        libglib-1.1.so.3 is needed by ggv-0.26-3
        libgnome.so.0 is needed by gnome-admin-0.30-1
        libgnome.so.0 is needed by yagirc-0.65.6-3
        libgnome.so.0 is needed by ggv-0.26-3
        libgnomeui.so.0 is needed by gnome-admin-0.30-1
        libgnomeui.so.0 is needed by yagirc-0.65.6-3
        libgnomeui.so.0 is needed by ggv-0.26-3
        libgdk-1.1.so.2 is needed by gnome-admin-0.30-1
        libgdk-1.1.so.2 is needed by yagirc-0.65.6-3
        libgdk-1.1.so.2 is needed by ggv-0.26-3
        libgtk-1.1.so.2 is needed by gnome-admin-0.30-1
        libgtk-1.1.so.2 is needed by yagirc-0.65.6-3
        libgtk-1.1.so.2 is needed by ggv-0.26-3  
[root@localhost]#


As you see I got the same thing. So I went back to the FTP to make sure I
had everything, and I read the README.
It says, 

"Grab the RPMS for your arch (i386/alpha/sparc) as well as the RPMS from
noarch/, then rpm -Uvh *"

So, I thought I'd better get the noarch/ rpms. I did that then tried to
install again and got the same message as above. I saw no mention on the
Gnome home page of anything else that I needed except the RPMS:

umb-scheme package
xscreensaver package
guile package

and everything from here:
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/redhat/latest/i386/  

Oh yes, one last thing:

I did configure that account (not root) to run Gnome by adding exec-gnome
to .Xclients and commenting out KDE's entries. I also added export
PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin to my /etc/profile

If you read this far, do you have any idea of what this newbie has done
wrong? Please tell me that Gnome is not this unfriendly, and that I am just
crazy. 

Any help? :)

Brian