Re: Building on SuSE 9.0

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> There are not generally updates for gnome RPMs available from/for older 
> SuSE distros.  Hence, I want to update the "global" gnome install on a 
> number of machines.  When I went to 2.8 I did it by hand, which was not 
> only tedious, but left my fingers sore! (LOL).
> 
> SuSE puts libraries and exe's in different places than Red Hat, some 
> things go into /usr, /usr/local and /opt/gnome.

Different paths are not an issue at all.

If you want to have the GNOME Desktop available to all users, using a
directory like /opt/gnome-$VERSION as $prefix would be best (if that
directory isn't used already, of course ;).

Even when sharing the Desktop among users, you do not need t build as
root. We advise to build as a user, who simply should own the $prefix
dir.


> I saw on the SuSE support list that people did not have much success 
> with garnome with the last release, so I thought I would ask here if it 
> is possible to do this.

AFAIK there are/where issues on SuSE. But IMHO building GARNOME on SuSE
should be possible.

...guenther


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