On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Sadaruwan Samaraweera slinuxworld@gmail.com wrote:

Can any one tell me how to upgrade from the current GNOME version to a new version with out upgrading my distribution.

Short answer: There is no supported way for doing this.

Longer Answer: The unsupported methods require a great deal of gnome/RHEL/CentOS understanding in how things link together. Another thing to keep in mind is that with a new version of gnome, several of the underlying utilities for the gui tools are built against a specific version. You'll either have to have 2 sets installed (which can cause issues) or you'll have to rebuild most of the gui tools to link to the new gnome libs., at which point you're basically not on CentOS anymore.

Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote:

Can any one tell me how to upgrade from the current GNOME version to a new version with out upgrading my distribution.

Hmm, a quick search reveals this was posted last month in the CentOS list by a certain Sadaruwan Samaraweera. Do you know him?

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-October/065922.html

Regards, Vandaman.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Sadaruwan Samaraweera slinuxworld@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

Can any one tell me how to upgrade from the current GNOME version to a new version with out upgrading my distribution.

Short answer: you can't.

Right answer: Don't.

Long answer: Google is your friend (but CentOS won't be).

Would you like to try again next month?

mhr