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GNOME Development Series Desktop 2.3.5:

Submitted by stro on Sun, 2003-08-03 23:57. Gnome 2.x

The GNOME Development Series Desktop 2.3.5 "Jebe", is ready for your
bug-busting and testing pleasure! It is available for immediate download on

ftp.gnome.org and mirrors.

tar.gz: 124M total
tar.bz2: 92M total
For Developers and Testers!
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This release is a feature-frozen, development series snapshot. It is used by
developers and testers as their day-to-day working desktop, and is ready for
wider testing by our user community. Like the Linux kernel, GNOME uses odd
minor version numbers to indicate development status, so this 2.3.x series
will eventually become the official 2.4 release. Please check the 2.3 start
page for more information: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.3/

Build Requirements
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- The tarballs included in the release. :-)

- Some very basic packages not distributed with this release, such as
image libraries, popt and freetype. These should all be included with or
available for your distribution.

- Xft2 and fontconfig for superior font rendering and configuration,
preferably from http://fontconfig.org/ NOT XFree86 4.3.x.

- Docbook DTD 4.1.2, Docbook XSL stylesheets and a valid system catalogue
file for scrollkeeper (which in turn is required by many desktop
components for documentation).

Happy testing!

- The GNOME Release Team

Changelog is Available Here

Re: building GNOME from CVS

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2003-08-06 10:25.

Hello, I'm the author of CVSGnome. First of all I recommend you update the version ot 0.4.3 which you need to grab from the mirror since the Mainpage is down for technical maintainance.

http://mirrors.egwn.net/cvsgnome/

Then I recommend you read the FAQ section inside the SCRIPT which gives you answers to your problems but they are easy to solve anyways.

What you are missing here are HEADERFILES make sure you install the development files for X11 such as includes and stuff like this. Make sure you install headerfiles for all sort of things such as libpng, libgif, libtiff, libwhatever. A normal debian installation is usually OK but people usually install the binary stuff and forget the development files. If you compile GNOME then the configure scripts usually check wether your system supports these files.

greetings,

oGALAXYo

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