Is There a GNOME that's not Ximian?

ahde asks: "I tried to install Ximian Gnome 1.4 on a customized Redhat 6.1 box that their Red Carpet installer didn't like. No big deal, I thought I'd just download Gnome and install it myself, only to discover that there is apparently no such thing. Gnome.org tells you to download from Ximian, which only allows installs through their Red Carpet. I have nothing against Ximian, but is there another way to get Gnome without downloading a hundred separate RPMs and then going through dependency hell?"

Comments

Re:Yes

[lizrd]

I'm getting really sick of people who think that

apt-get install

is ever a good answer to a general question. People don't bother to submit to ask /. to get simple information. They submit their questions for ask /. to get advice. If you don't understand the difference, quit posting here.

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Clarification

[ahde]

I mentioned in the original submission (but it got cut) that installing Debian wasn't an option at this time (so neither is freebsd or anything else) since there is a lot of custom development and it kinda needs to be kept on line and intact.

The box is a P233 with 128M memory with redhat 6.1, but I've had to make (./configure &&; make &&; make install) a lot of custom modifications like migrating the whole file system over to reiserfs. I should have upgraded the whole thing at the time, in retrospect.

I did manage to install most everything a package at a time (rpm -i * did not work) except the two packages I actually wanted. Sawfish and GNUCash. This was because guile failed and ximian does not include an rpm for umb-scheme. So I got a source rpm from rpmfind and compiled umb-scheme and the guile rpm worked. But its a lie because Sawfish and GNUCash still won't install. Sawfish chokes when I try to make from source, too.

I can just write my own accounting scripts for a web front end, so that's not a problem, and since its too slow for anyone who'd need to use GNUCash anyway, I'll have to live with it. Although I may just build a toolbar (maybe steal tkdesk) and have twm running because it will *eventually* be only remotely administratable, and any on-site maintenance will be done by windows users. That's why I wanted Gnome & especially Sawfish, because it is much faster than enlightenment. I have nothing against KDE, but I don't know it well enough. Maybe my next ask slashdot will be for comments on VNC and alternatives.

Thanks for the input. I guess maybe the answer is, simply: No, nobody but Ximian packages Gnome, and gnome endorses ximian exclusively.

Definately

[Gleef]

The message you got is because GNOME doesn't distribute binaries, they leave that up to others.

If you are looking for a binary distribution, Debian's GNOME distribution is very good (you can probably install it on Redhat via alien, or just switch to Debian).

Regardless of distribution, you can always download the source from ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources.
Configure, compile, install and run. It takes a bit more disk space this way, but it's not as hard as you might think.

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