null Posted May 29, 2004 Report Share Posted May 29, 2004 Is this possible to do in a not too compilcated way? I have RH 9 with gnome 2.2, but when I temporarily installed FC1 on the same box, I liked gnome 2.4 better. Then I re-installed RH 9 over FC1, so I am back to gnome 2.2. I wasn't having much luck with apt when I had FC1, so I got mad and re-installed RH 9. Apt works great with RH 9, but I miss gnome 2.4. I used apt to upgrade everything in RH9, and then I did the apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade the base packages, in the hope that it would upgrade gnome, but it didn't. I googled this a lilttle, but many results just ended up being people saying to just install FC1 instead of RH9, to get gnome 2.4 in an easier way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 Why don't you just install FC2? Then you will have Gnome-2.6 & kernel 2.6, its a good solid distro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted May 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 actually, I just downloaded all 4 FC2 ISOs last night. I was gonna put them on my new linux box I am building. My RH9 box is an old P-III, 1GHz, 256Mb RAM machine which is still pretty decent. I have been using it to practice on, learning linux, learning gnome, learning intalling s/w, etc. I was just asking cuz I wondered if it was possible to upgrade gnome 2.2 to 2.4, but it is probably too complicated. I am going to let my 6-yr old boy have my RH9 machine after I get my new one built in about 2 weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 I only say that because it might be hard finding the rpms for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 30, 2004 Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 I don't see why apt won't do this for you. I did it with RH9. Search for nyquist or dag rpm repositories for 2.4 and have fun.....if they still exist, that is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted May 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2004 (edited) yeah, I was gonna try apt-get install gnome-whatever, but I haven't tried it yet. I was hoping the dist-upgrade would upgrade gnome, but it doesn't. Or maybe I have to be out of gnome when I do that...? I did have the dag repository in my sources.list file. No big deal I guess, since I'm gonna give the machine to my 6 yr old. He has no preference either way... he just cares about games. Edited May 30, 2004 by null Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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