Gnome update question

Hello, I was wondering if there is a fairly painless way to update Gnome to version 2.4 for SuSE 9.0? I tried with apt and got a very nasty result so I was wondering if anyone had any success in this area? What exactly happened after I tried to update Gnome is that Gnome would not even start up and applications that are Gnome based also refused to start. So this is why I asked on a nice and simple way of doing this. I was wanting to see if Gnome 2.4 has better CUPS intergration than the one that is supplied with SuSE which I believe is 2.2. Thanks.