To build Nautilus without interfering with an existing Gnome install, you will need to build several components from CVS into a separate prefix. For example, you could install these components into /usr/local/gnome2 or /usr/local/nautilus. Do do this, make sure to specify these with the --prefix option to autogen.sh or configure. Specifically, you will need to: * Install all the needed modules into your selected prefix. Nautilus currently requires the following modules (built in the given order): glib: glib-1-2 gtk+: gtk-1-2 gnome-xml: LIB_XML_1_X ORBit: orbit-stable-0-5 gnome-libs: gnome-libs-1-0 gdk-pixbuf: HEAD (with --enable-canvas-pixbuf) bonobo: HEAD gnome-vfs: HEAD libglade: HEAD gnome-print: HEAD gtkhtml: HEAD eog: HEAD ORBit requires you to install popt-1.5, which can be fetched from: ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/mirrors/redhat/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/popt-1.5-0.36.i386.rpm * Build and install nautilus into your selected prefix. All patches should go through nautilus-list@lists.eazel.com