Installing GNOME

You can try out GNOME 2.14 via the LiveCD which contains all of the software included in GNOME 2.14 on a single CD. It can be downloaded from the GNOME BitTorrent site or GNOME FTP.

To install or upgrade your machine to GNOME 2.14, we recommend you install official packages from your vendor or distribution. Popular distributions will be making GNOME 2.14 available very soon and some already have development versions with GNOME 2.14 available. You can get a list of distributions who ship GNOME and the latest version they ship on our Get Footware page.

If you are brave and patient and would like to build GNOME from source, we recommend you use one of the build tools. GARNOME builds GNOME from release tarballs. You will need GARNOME 2.14.x to build GNOME 2.14.x. There is also jhbuild which is designed to build the latest GNOME from CVS. You can also use jhbuild to build GNOME 2.14.x by using the gnome-2-14 moduleset.

For those who really want to compile the entire desktop by hand, the order to compile the modules in is: libxml2, libxslt, gnome-common, intltool, scrollkeeper, gtk-doc, glib, libIDL, ORBit2, libbonobo, fontconfig, Render, Xrender, cairo, Xft, pango, atk, shared-mime-info, gtk+, gconf, desktop-file-utils, gnome-mime-data, avahi, dbus, hal, gnome-vfs, audiofile, esound, libgnome, libart_lgpl, libglade, libgnomecanvas, libbonoboui, hicolor-icon-theme, icon-naming-utils, gnome-icon-theme, gnome-keyring, libgnomeui, startup-notification, gtk-engines, gnome-themes, gnome-doc-utils, gnome-desktop, libwnck, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, libtasn1, opencdk, gnutls, libsoup, mozilla, evolution-data-server, gnome-python/pygobject, pycairo, gnome-python/pygtk, gnome-menus, gnome-panel, gnome-session, vte, gnome-terminal, libgtop, gail, libxklavier, gstreamer, liboil, gst-plugins-base, gucharmap, system-tools-backends, gnome-applets, metacity, libgsf, libcroco, libgnomecups, libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, librsvg, eel, nautilus, control-center, yelp, bug-buddy, gtksourceview, gnome-python/pyorbit, gnome-python/gnome-python, nautilus-cd-burner, gst-plugins-good, libmusicbrainz, iso-codes, totem, gnome-media, gnome-python/gnome-python-desktop, gedit, eog, gconf-editor, gnome-utils, gnome-system-monitor, gnome-netstatus, gcalctool, zenity, at-spi, libgail-gnome, gnome-speech, gnome-mag, gnopernicus, gok, epiphany, gob2, gnome-games, gnome-user-docs, file-roller, gnome-system-tools, gnome-nettool, vino, gnome-volume-manager, gnome-backgrounds, sound-juicer, gtkhtml, evolution, evolution-webcal, evolution-exchange, ekiga, poppler, evince, dasher, gnome-keyring-manager, deskbar-applet, fast-user-switch-applet, gnome-screensaver, pessulus, sabayon.

This list is provided purely for reference and we strongly urge anyone looking to compile GNOME from source to consider using one of the build tools listed above.