On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 01:53, Mike Cunningham wrote: > I've just installed fc1 (defected from Suse for various reasons) and > have setup apt with the default config supplied by ATrpms. Everything is > working great except that I cannot work out what I need to have in my > sources.list to pick up regular gnome updates (e.g. 2.4.2). Regular updates are in the updates, or the updates-testing feeds. > My understanding is that if I used nyquist's devel packages I could > probably get 2.5.3 (and I may well do so on my development box) but I > cannot figure out how to just get updates in the 2.4.x series. Or > rather, I know how just not where from. You can get 2.5.x from Rawhide as well (fedora development feeds). > Alternatively, is 2.5.3 stable enough for non-critical use. i.e. as a > day-to-day desktop on a development box? It depends if you're willing to track bugs. I'm using it, mostly seems to be okay. > Am I right in thinking that I could get that from nyquist or would I > need to compile it from the source? I don't really mind doing so but > would rather avoid it if I can. Never used nyquist's archives. If you want to compile it, I recommend jhbuild. I recently wrote about my experiences at http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2004/2/1/building-gnome-25 -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/ http://fedoranews.org/colin/fnu/ - Fedora News Updates
