How Can I Get A Stable Pure GNOME-1.4 System?
(1.) Which of the GNOME Tarballs Mentioned In The Release 1.4 Directory Shall I Install In Which Order?
(2.) Which Tarballs mentioned in the Release-1.4 directory or in the gnome5toe directory need a special handling and why?
(3.) And Why Should I Still Not Install These Already As Stable Declared Tarballs?

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Which of the central GNOME Tarballs Shall I Install In Which Order?
    Package Version Purpose Hints
» 0. pkgconfig 0.12 Skript for substituting some autoconf/automake commands. Although it's required by GNOME 2.0 some applications (like gnome-vfs) already uses this scripts now.
» 1. glib 1.2.10 Library for having independent types
» 2. gtk+ 1.2.10 The gimp tool kit library, the base of GNOME
» 3. libsigc++ 1.0.4 Library required by gtkmm
» 4. gtkmm 1.2.8 C++ wrapper for gtk
» 5. imlib 1.9.14 Graphic library
» 6. gtk-engines 0.12 GTK-themes
» 7.a libxml 1.8.17 / 2.4.22 Validating xml-parser-library
» 7.b. libxslt 1.0.18 General library for transforming xml documents and also used and offered by GNOME
» 8. libghttp 1.0.9 Library for using the http-protocol
» 9. ORBit 0.5.17 Corba for GNOME
» 10. audiofile 0.2.3 The name is program
» 11. esound 0.2.27 The name is program
» 12. gnome-libs 1.4.1.7 Library for making GNOME-applications!
» 13. gnomemm 1.2.2 C++-library for computing gnome-applications
» 14. oaf 0.6.10 Addon Library for bonobo, gnome-vfs etc.
» 15. gdk-pixbuf 0.17.0 A library for loading and displaying images
» 16. gnome-print 0.36 Library for printing under gnome
» 17. bonobo 1.0.20 CORBA-based object embedding system
» 18. libgtop 1.0.13 Process library
» 19. libglade 0.17 Library for glade applications
» 20. GConf 1.0.9 Gnome Config Library required by gnome-vfs
» 21.a gnome-mime-data 1.0.1 The GNOME mime and application database used by gnome-vfs
» 21.b gnome-vfs 1.0.5 Gnome virtual file system, required by the Gnome-editor
» 22. control-center 1.4.0.4 Tools for configuring GNOME (Don't use 1.4.0.5. Seems to be buggy)
» 23.a intltool 0.22 Skripts for managing some internatiolization task / steps during the development process. Required by scrollkeeper
» 23.b scrollkeeper 0.3.9 GNOME documentation manager
» 24. gnome-core 1.4.0.8 Very embedded tools
» 25. gnome-applets 1.4.0.4 All those little applications which can use the panel as io-window. (Don't use 1.4.0.5. Seems to be buggy)
» 26. gnome-python 1.4.2 Library for writing GNOME applications with Python
» 27. gnome-utils 1.4.1.2 All the small but important utilities
» 28. gnome-audio 1.4.0 Some of the multi media tools
» 29. gnome-games 1.4.0.4 As the name say ...
» 30. gnome-media 1.2.3 Other multi media tools
» 31. gnome-pim 1.4.6 GNOME (Address) Card and GNOME Calendar inside of one package. For newer versions (in combination with gnome-pilot) look here
  32. bug-buddy 2.0.8 The GNOME bug report system
  33. gdm 2.2.5.5 Login tool for GNOME
» 34. ggv 1.0.2 GNOME ghost view means a post-file viewer.
» 35. ghex 1.2.1 Very comfortable hex-editor.
» 36. gtop 1.0.13 Very fine systemmonitor
  37. panelmm 0.3.1 Library for creating applications
  38. librep 0.15.2 Lisp-interpreter used by sawfish
  39. rep-gtk 0.15 Gtk-lisp-bindings for librep used by sawfish
  40. sawfish 1.0.1 Small windowmanager (also hostet at sourceforge)
» 41. windowmaker 0.80 Fast and fine windowmanager
  42. xalf 0.12 Implements the `please wait' cursor as applications (started by GNOME applications) load
» 43. gnome-user-docs 1.4.1.1 New GNOME 1.4 handbook
» 44. glade 0.6.4 GNOME / GTK development tool for automatically creating GNOME sources.
» 45. guppi 0.40.3 A GNOME-based framework for graphing and interactive data analysis, now at least required by gnu-cash.
  46.A pspell 0.12.2 Spelling check library, required by «balsa».
  46.B balsa 1.2.4 Sophisticated mail client with known but still unchanged problematical installation

Which (unstable) central GNOME Tarballs should I also install?
    Package Version Purpose Hints
» 1. libole2 0.2.4 Library required by Gnumeric and other but neither mentioned in the Release 1.4 directory nor in the gnome5toe directory.
» 2. libunicode 0.4 New sign-management required by Gnome Application Library (GAL) etc.
» 3. gal 0.19.2 New gnome-application-library required by Gnumeric and Evolution
» 4. gnumeric 1.0.7 Spreadsheet, requiring some unmentioned libraries.
» 5. freetype2 2.0.8 Library for font-handling, required by nautilus
» 6. mozilla 1.0.0 Mozilla rendering machine used by nautilus and galeon
  7. librsvg 1.0.3 Extra library required by eel
  8. eel 1.0.2 eazel extra library requiring librsvg and required by nautilus
  9. ammonite 1.0.2 Ammonite is client-side HTTP proxy that implements special features needed for the Eazel Service user authentication system and now being required by nautilus (shall be obsolete, dead, and not used by anything: that will practically be tested during the next total rebuilt)
  10. nautilus 1.0.6 File manager and webbrowser, based on the mozilla-rendering-machine
» 11. galeon 1.2.5 A new Webbrowser, based on the mozilla-rendering-machine
  12. db3 3.1.17 Berkeley db library required by evolution
» 13. bonobo-conf 0.14.0 bonobo configure library required by evolution
» 14. gtkhtml 1.0.3 A lightweight HTML rendering/printing/editing engine required by evolution and other gnome5toe-applications
» 15. pilot-link 0.9.5 Basic library for establish connections between pilots and linux computers (not GNOME specific, but required by gnome-pilot (and jpilot) [don't use 0.9.6]
» 16. gnome-pilot 0.1.65 Basic library for making your evolution being able to talk with your pilot. For getting the latest versions try this location too.
» 17. gnome-pilot-conduits 0.9 Contact manager for making your evolution being able to talk with your pilot. For getting the latest versions try this location too..
» 18. evolution 1.0.7 The ultimate GNOME scheduler and mail application

Why Should I Still Not Install These Already As Stable Declared Tarballs?
    Package Version Purpose Hints
  1. gfloppy 0.9.2 Has been part of the gnome-utils until version 1.2.0 and seemed to be erased in versions 1.3.x. Note: this autonomous tarball is very old!
  2. gnome-common 0.6 Library haven't been missed.
  3. gnome-crash 0.0.5 Too early version of a new bug-report-system?
  4. gnome-hack 1.0.1 A GNOME-Port of Nethack, a very old and really simple role playing game. (many thanks to Jens Fisseler for these explanations)
  5. gnome-linuxconf 0.22 The version offered by GNOME is to old. And it requires linuxconf. From that a little bit confused page you can also reach the really latest valid version (0.65) of gnome-linuxconf. For reaching it starting at the top homepage use its' «download link of linuxconf » instead of the «link last-modules / gnome-linuxconf».
But the latest version still doesn't compile, because without having added all nescessary aclocal macros its' developers use «autogen.sh» instead of «configure, make make install» . So you can neither set the $INSTPATH correctly nor compile it using the defaultly set INSTPATH.
  6. googlizer 0.1 To early even for GNOME 1.4
  7. g-print 0.2 Obsolete library being replaced by gnome-print
  8. libPropList 0.8.3 Addon for elder versions of Windowmaker, but in the last versions of WindowMaker, libproplist is no more needed. Therefore it's no more nescessary for GNOME.
  9. medusa 0.5.0 Find Daemon (not strongly) required by Nautilus of GNOME 1.4 (which has evoked the last delay of publishing the GNOME 1.4 release)
  10. xml-i18n-tools 0.8 Developer script for adding the internationalization: normally not needed by a totally prepared tarball

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