We recommend that you use official installation packages, such as those for your linux distribution. Vendors are likely to package GNOME 2.6 relatively quickly, and to release new versions soon that include GNOME 2.6. However, many people don't want to wait, and will want to build GNOME from source code, even though that is more difficult.
pkg-config, available at http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/releases/pkgconfig-0.15.0.tar.gz
The Xft2 and fontconfig family of libraries, available at http://fontconfig.org/
Note that while these libraries are available as part of XFree86 4.3, the newer versions from fontconfig.org are highly recommended.
FreeType 2.0.9 or greater, available at http://www.freetype.org/
docbook-xml [docbook dtd 4.1.2]
docbook-xsl [docbook xsl stylesheets]
libxml2
libxslt
gtk-doc
glib
libIDL
ORBit2
intltool
libbonobo
fontconfig
Render
Xrender
Xft
pango
atk
shared-mime-info
gtk+
gconf
gnome-mime-data
gnome-vfs
esound
libgnome
libart_lgpl
libglade
libgnomecanvas
libbonoboui
hicolor-icon-theme
gnome-icon-theme
gnome-keyring
libgnomeui
startup-notification
gtk-engines
gnome-themes
gnome-desktop
libwnck
scrollkeeper
gnome-panel
gnome-session
vte
gnome-terminal
libgtop
gail
gnome-applets
metacity
libgsf
libcroco
librsvg
eel
nautilus
control-center
gtkhtml2
yelp
bug-buddy
libgnomeprint
libgnomeprintui
gtksourceview
gedit
eog
ggv
file-roller
gconf-editor
gnome-utils
gal
gnome-system-monitor
gstreamer
gst-plugins
gnome-media
nautilus-media
gnome-netstatus
gcalctool
gpdf
gucharmap
nautilus-cd-burner
zenity
gnome-speech
at-spi
gnome-mag
gnopernicus
gok
epiphany
gnomemeeting
gnome-games
gnome2-user-docs
If you do not wish to manually build each module yourself, then you might consider using GARNOME, a GNOME source code distribution based on the GAR ports system. GARNOME automatically downloads the tarballs and builds them for you. However, GARNOME is ususally used only for testing of unstable development versions of GNOME.
To find out more information visit the GARNOME web page.
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