Here! Here! The debian Instuctions!!! (applause)

["Tri" <merlintm bellsouth net>]

Here it is. Notice this is the rough draft and corrections are very,very
welcomed. I need to convert this to html, but if someone could do that for
me it would be most excellent.

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Gnome /w Enlighenment Tarball Installation Guide for Debian 2.1 (version 0.1
aka. extremely rough draft)
(This guide will not work for gnomecvs)

This guide assumes that you have root access. I strongly suggest you print
out this guide( If you don't, ummmm, let's just say you can't follow this
guide word for word :-)

Many of you loyal Debian users have been left in the cold, but don't
despair. Here's some stuff for you guys.

Make sure you have all your standard packages installed
Go into dselect and check if you have these packages installed.(use dselect
to check the dependencies)
I clumped together all of the packages that depend on each other.
Check these off as you go

__xlib6g-dev

__gettext

__indent

__libungif3g
__libungif3g-dev

__libtiff3g-dev
__libtiff3g
__libjpeg62

__libpng2-dev
__zlib1g-dev

__libmagick4-dev
__libmagick4g
__freetype1
__libhdfg
__libjpegg6a
__libmpeg
__freetype2
__freetype2-dev

__libjpegg-dev

__guile1.3
__libguile4
__slib
__libguile4-dev

__libreadlineg2-dev
__xpm4g-dev
__xpm4g

__gobjc
__egcc

Note: These packages only cover the standard gnome stuff (gnome-libs,
gnome-core, etc.., but not gnome-python and etc.)

Make a directory in your home directory to hold you gnome tarballs.(on my
computer I call it "gnome")
Download all of the latest gnometarballs into your gnome tarball directory
(Don't know where to get them? I happen to have a handy guide right here)
 Go to http://www.gnome.org
 click on the gnome ftp link
 find a fast mirror
 click on the gnome-1.0 directory in the ftp server
 click on sources
 you should get everything in this directory,except for the "old" directory,
freetype,guile,  )
 note: Sometimes you can find more recent tarballs by going to the homepage
of the tarball.
 example:The latest tarball for gtk+ and glib+ can be found on the
www.gtk.org page.
 But most of the time the tarballs in this directory are current enough.

Download the Enlightenment tarball
 Go to http://www.enlightenment.org
 click on download
 click on any of the ftp mirrors
 find the enlightenment tarball(enlightenment-*.tar.gz),fnlib
tarball(fnlib-*.tar.gz)
 download these files to your gnome tarball directory.

The /opt install method
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This uses the /opt install method. Why? Read on to find out.
Gnome is a quickly changing piece of software. It is because of this that
each tarball version has a different level of stability and usability. Just
in case you happen to get some screwed up tarballs, the gnome stuff is
isolated away from the main system. So with a swift "rm -rf /opt" you can
wipe out a screwed up gnome and start with clean slate. Also this prevents
tarball stuff from interfering with debian stuff.

Add /opt/bin to your path.(edit the /etc/profile file)
Add /opt/lib to your to /etc/ld.so.conf

You may want to logout and log back in to update the path.

cd into your the directory where you stored your gnome tarballs (~/gnome)
Enter ls to list your tarballs

This is the tarball install order: (check them off as you install them)

__audiofile
__esound
__glib
__gtk+
__imlib
__fnlib
__libghttp
__libxml
__enlightenment
__gtk-engines
__ORBit
__gnome-libs
__libgtop
__gtop
__gnome-core
__gnome-objc
__enlightenment-conf
__control-center
__mc

After these files all the rest of the tarballs will install in any order


Basic Install instructions:
Do this for every tarball using the above order

tar xvzf <tarball name>
cd <uncompressed tarball directory>
./configure --prefix=/opt
(note: you should check for errors as it configures. This will help you
determine if you are missing any files the tarball depends on, and usually
it will tell you what files it depends on.)
make
su root
make install
ldconfig
exit
make clean

setting up your .xinitrc
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add this line to your .xinitrc file (you can find this file in your home
directory, if you don't have one, make one)

gnome-session

Welcome to Gnome!
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type startx
(open mouth in awe)

Authored by: Tri
Email: merlintm@bellsouth.net

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I'll wait for the critics to do their worst. ;-)
Tri