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>It depends on what kind of computer you have, and what you
      want to do with GNOME.  If in doubt, the officially supported
      way to install GNOME is from the latest set of tarballs (the
      files ending in &#8220;.tar.gz&#8221;) from <A
HREF="ftp://ftp.gnome.org"
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>ftp://ftp.gnome.org</A
> or its mirrors. Look in the
      /pub/GNOME/sources directory for the various packages.  The full
      list of FTP mirrors is at <A
HREF="http://www.gnome.org/ftpmirrors.shtml"
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>http://www.gnome.org/ftpmirrors.shtml</A
>, in an emergency, try
      <A
HREF="ftp://gnomeftp.wgn.net/pub/gnome"
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>ftp://gnomeftp.wgn.net/pub/gnome</A
>.</P
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>If you want the up to the minute, bleeding edge
      development version of GNOME, CVS is the way to go.  There is no
      guarantee that the CVS version will even compile, much less
      work, but bug reports are quite appreciated.  If this sounds
      like its for you, you can find more information on getting the
      CVS version at <A
HREF="http://www.gnome.org/devel/whatiscvs.shtml"
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>http://www.gnome.org/devel/whatiscvs.shtml</A
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      and <A
HREF="http://www.cinternet.net/~soren/gnome/cvs.shtml"
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>http://www.cinternet.net/~soren/gnome/cvs.shtml</A
>.</P
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>If you don't want to deal with compiling GNOME, and you
      are on a common system, there might be precompiled binary
      packages available for you.  Currently there are packages for
      RedHat, SuSE 6.0, Debian and LinuxPPC systems.  Until recently
      there were Solaris packages as well, as soon as we have good
      ones we will offer these as well.  Find out more about the
      various distributions at <A
HREF="http://www.gnome.org/start/getting.shtml"
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>http://www.gnome.org/start/getting.shtml</A
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