New User Trying to install Gnome

["Gregory Dutreix" <gdutreix cajunnet com>]

Hello.

I'm a newbie to Linux as far as the installation of software (may as well
be a complete newbie).  I want to install Gnome v .27 on
my computer, but am a bit confused as to what files I have to have.  Do I
need the egcs and gettext files?  And, where can I find
the libIDL file at?  

Thank you for any help,

Greg Dutreix