cvs downloads

[amtrac24]

hey guys quick question regarding cvs. The web sites used to download programs...

In order to get the software you go on the cvs site. On the web site you are shown a whole bunch of files and folders. Do you save all of them? <there are no rpms, or extrable files> Anyways done this before? Also if u save all of them how do u save them? my browser will only let me save target but it wants to save the web site not the actual file and when i just click on the file it opens the source code for me. Thanks for your help guys

[nukes]

Its hard to explain. I presume this is in relation to that GNOME-Basic thing?
I'll make it easy for you:
open a console and type the following:

mkdir gmone-basic
cd gnome-basic
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome login
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome -z3 co gb

If you want a tarball for future use do this as well:

cd ..
tar cvjf gnome-basic.tar.bz2 gnome-basic

You shouldn't try and get CVS in a browser lol.

For the most part, websites tell you what you need to know:
from http://www.gnome.org/projects/gb/#getting :

As with any other software in GNOME, you can fetch the latest development version of Gnome Basic from the GNOME Anonymous CVS and from the GNOME CVS. Just checkout the module "gb".

and from:
http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html

The first thing to do when you start using CVS is to set up your environment. It is useful to create a developer workspace somewhere on your machine and keep all source code within there. CVS will use the current directory that you are in if you start checking out some source code. You will need to set up the environment variable 'CVSROOT' to either
:pserver:[username]@cvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome
in the case of using the main CVS repository [requires password] or
:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome
in the case of using one of the anonymous CVS repository mirrors.

The next thing you will need to do is login to the CVS server. You generally only need to do this once and it will be remembered for the future. You can do this by typing in the following command
cvs login
Now you are ready to check out some source code. This can be done simply by the following command
cvs -z3 co [module]
The -z[n] flag specifies the level of compression. Valid levels are 1 [high speed, low compression] to 9 [low speed, high compression] and 0 to disable compression [which is default]. 3 is most used by most people.

Anything else you need is in the manpage for cvs.