RE: Wanting to try Gnome, need a little advice

["b p" <xlacklusterx hotmail com>]

Patrick,

Compiling and installing applications on UNIX/LINUX aren't nearly as hard as 
they sound. It's genrally three simple steps (four if you include cd'ing to 
the directory)

$>tar -xzj app-version.tar.gz (or tar -xjf app-version.tar.bz2 if it's bz2 
compressed)
$>cd app-version
$>./configure
$>make
$>make install (may have to be root for this)

that's it! some of the better configure scripts will tell you about missing 
dependancies and even install them for you if you wish. on my computer I 
generally do:

$>tar -xjf app-version.tar.bz2
$>cd app-version
$>./configure && make && sudo make install

YMMV

Good luck and post back if you have any more questions.


> Hello,
>
> Bug Day, deep fried grasshoppers??? Don't spare the chocolate sauce! <grin>
> Seriously. I started using Linux about 6 mo. ago. Loaded SuSE 8.2, somehow
> didn't get gnome loaded back then. I've tried to get the gnome desktop
> running from my installation CDs over the past few days, had no success,
> appears some updates/changes I've done allong the way fouled something up.
> So, I thought I'd try and do it the right way and compile Gnome from 
> source.
> The slight hitch is, I've never compiled C programs before. I gather the
> compiler and other necessary tools are standard on this system. I currently
> work with scripting stuff, PHP, Javascript, and ( the boss made me do it )
> VBscript.  Long ago I did a bunch of assembler level progamming.  ( Anyone
> remember Z80 and RCA 1802, CPUs? Also a number of Intel microcontroller
> chips. )  Does anyone know of a website with instructions for compiling 
> Gnome
> for Linux or have any suggestions? Is it striaght forward enough to do just
> from a list of instructions or do I need to do some more indepth study and
> preperation for such jobs?  I didn't see anything very specific about
> installation on the www.gnome.org website. Did I miss something?  I did
> download the Gnome 2.4.1  *tar.bz source code files.
>
> Thanks
> Patrick(Alaska)
> Currently running KDE 3.1 desktop on SuSE Linux 8.2 on a Dell computer,
> Pentium IV w/ much RAM and diskspace.
>
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