I have not had any success building a more recent version of GDE than 2.16.0 on CentOS.
I tried jhbuild, and went line by line using the how-to web page for jhbuild (http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/jhbuild.html), and I get hung up on dbus-glib-l (which does not appear to be in CentOS or available for it, at least from base, updates, extras, KB & rpmforge). Garnome is another possibility that I haven't looked at yet 'cuz jhbuild is supposed to be easy and fully automated (it might be, if everything it needs is already there, but it doesn't tell you up front what that means or how to get it or ...).
Gnome "says" we should use the GDE that ships with our distribution, but RH (CentOS) has to oldest revision available. To get a newer one, the Gnome people recommend building my own.
Has anyone tried this successfully? How?
Thanks.
mhr
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:00:41PM -0700, MHR wrote:
I have not had any success building a more recent version of GDE than 2.16.0 on CentOS.
I tried jhbuild, and went line by line using the how-to web page for jhbuild (http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/jhbuild.html), and I get hung up on dbus-glib-l (which does not appear to be in CentOS or available for it, at least from base, updates, extras, KB & rpmforge). Garnome is another possibility that I haven't looked at yet 'cuz jhbuild is supposed to be easy and fully automated (it might be, if everything it needs is already there, but it doesn't tell you up front what that means or how to get it or ...).
Gnome "says" we should use the GDE that ships with our distribution, but RH (CentOS) has to oldest revision available. To get a newer one, the Gnome people recommend building my own.
Has anyone tried this successfully? How?
Not a great answer for you, but... are you tied to CentOS? Could you use Fedora?
If I were in your shoes I'd probably start with the Fedora SRPM's and then build up additional components that are required or modify...
Actually I'd probably just use Fedora :)
Ray
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