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