Dropline Gnome = easy path to v2.4

[Anthony <orders nodivisions com>]

Hello all,

After battling for over a week with manually installing all the packages 
to upgrade to Gnome 2.4, and finding it incredibly difficult (and 
eventually impossible (without pouring substantial amounts of time into 
it)), I tried Dropline Gnome.

If you use Slackware, and you'd like to upgrade Gnome, I highly 
recommend the Dropline system, at www.dropline.net.  It automatically 
downloads all the required packages and installs them.  It went without 
a hitch (well, almost; there is a bug in the scrollkeeper package that 
made it hang, and as a workaround I manually installed the sgml-tools 
package from the Slackware CD before installing dropline), and quickly 
-- just about 90 minutes for the whole process.

After exiting X and rebooting (not "required" but it was recommended), 
Gnome 2.4 popped up without any problems.

-Anthony
http://nodivisions.com/