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

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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