Re: newbie question

[Patrick Colbeck <pat colbeck esc azlan co uk>]

Simon

Its a bit of a nightmare trying to keep up to date as things are moving
so fast. RedHat dont release new Gnome packages very often so no help
there. There are some people on this list who make new RPMS available
from there own web sites if you look through the archive you will find
them. Probably the easiest thing to do is to use the Helix Gnome
distribution. It installs straight onto RedHat no problem and has an
update program that you can run that will auto update you from their web
site or one of the mirrors. Helix migt not have the very latest stuff
all the time but they do update very regularly (at least once a week it
seems) and the stuff does work together properly. Miguel de
Icaza who is one of the original Gnome programers is involved with this
I believe. I have been running it for about three weeks now on RedHat
6.2 and its much better than the RedHat Gnome release and much easier
than scrabbling arround all over the net for RPMS. The other alternative
is to grab the tarballs and compile everything youself which I used to
do but it gets very time consuming.

Check Helix out at www.helixcode.com

Pat


On Wed Apr 26, at 01:07, Simon Butler wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
>  a quick newbie question.. can someone tell me how to down
>  load all of the latest gnome rpms in one shot? i'm running 
>  redhat 6.1 and would like to upgrade to the latest gnome 
>  version.  i would really like to be able to get all the 
>  rpms at once rather than getting them one by one (there's
>  so many!).  is there some fancy wget script out there that 
>  someone can make available or some other mechanism?
> 
> thx. -simon-
> 
> -- Simon Butler. simon@burble.net --
> 

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