How to upgrade to Gnome 2
I currently have Gnome 1.x and I'm wondering what's the best way to upgrade to Gnome 2?? Should I use Synaptic? Thanks! Tom --- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
On 4 Dec 2002, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I currently have Gnome 1.x and I'm wondering what's the best way to upgrade to Gnome 2?? Should I use Synaptic?
Thanks!
Tom
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Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
Tom, You might want to take a look at the GNOME2 release notes. They give an explanation of how to build it, and the order in which you need to build and install each package. You can leave your current version of GNOME on your system, since they can be installed in parallel. Follow this link for all the info: http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/releasenotes.html You can also try the GNOME2 rpm's for SuSE 8.0 if you are still using that. I tried them, though, and ran into numerous difficulties, so I wound up compiling all of the packages, but your mileage may vary. You can find the GNOM2 update for SuSE 8.0 on the SuSE ftp server. hth, Kevin
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Kevin L Hochhalter wrote:
On 4 Dec 2002, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I currently have Gnome 1.x and I'm wondering what's the best way to upgrade to Gnome 2?? Should I use Synaptic?
You can also try the GNOME2 rpm's for SuSE 8.0 if you are still using that. I tried them, though, and ran into numerous difficulties, so I wound up compiling all of the packages, but your mileage may vary. You can find the GNOM2 update for SuSE 8.0 on the SuSE ftp server.
A lot of the gnome2 stuff on SuSE's ftp apparently requires 'filesystem' which I can't find anything that provides. This I noticed through apt on SuSE 8.0 Regards Ole
* Ole Kofoed Hansen (ole@sandbox.adsl.dk) [021204 15:48]:
A lot of the gnome2 stuff on SuSE's ftp apparently requires 'filesystem' which I can't find anything that provides.
filesystem is what used to be aaa_base and some other stuff. It sounds like you are trying to install 8.1 packages on a version < 8.1, that won't work. -- -ckm
On Thursday 05 December 2002 00.55, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
* Ole Kofoed Hansen (ole@sandbox.adsl.dk) [021204 15:48]:
A lot of the gnome2 stuff on SuSE's ftp apparently requires 'filesystem' which I can't find anything that provides.
filesystem is what used to be aaa_base and some other stuff. It sounds like you are trying to install 8.1 packages on a version < 8.1, that won't work.
The 8.1 packages from supplementary won't install on an 8.1 system either. The dependencies are wrong.
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 05 December 2002 00.55, Christopher Mahmood wrote:
* Ole Kofoed Hansen (ole@sandbox.adsl.dk) [021204 15:48]:
A lot of the gnome2 stuff on SuSE's ftp apparently requires 'filesystem' which I can't find anything that provides.
filesystem is what used to be aaa_base and some other stuff. It sounds like you are trying to install 8.1 packages on a version < 8.1, that won't work.
The 8.1 packages from supplementary won't install on an 8.1 system either. The dependencies are wrong.
Seems like this is one of those times when it is simpler to build everything from source. Rpm's are nice, but compiling from source seems to yield applications that are faster and more stable anyway. Also, building GNOME2 using gcc 3.2 is really nice. Great thing to do is to export CFLAGS="-march=yourcpu". I have lately been building everything with 3.2, and I must say that I am impressed. Kevin
Op donderdag 5 december 2002 00:55, schreef Christopher Mahmood:
* Ole Kofoed Hansen (ole@sandbox.adsl.dk) [021204 15:48]:
A lot of the gnome2 stuff on SuSE's ftp apparently requires 'filesystem' which I can't find anything that provides.
filesystem is what used to be aaa_base and some other stuff. It sounds like you are trying to install 8.1 packages on a version < 8.1, that won't work.
It seems that the problem lies in the rpm: $ ls -l pango-1.0.5-0.i386.rpm lrwxrwxrwx 93 Dez 5 19:49 pango-1.0.5-0.i386.rpm -> ../../../../ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/GNOME2/update_for_8.0/base/pango-1.0.5-0.rpm $ rpm -qp --requires pango-1.0.5-0.i386.rpm | grep filesystem filesystem The other rpms that require filesystem as well are: control-center2-2.0.2.91-55.i386.rpm eog2-1.0.4-12.i386.rpm file-roller-2.0.4-47.i386.rpm gedit2-2.0.6-36.i386.rpm gnome-applets2-2.0.4-32.i386.rpm gnome-games2-2.0.6-23.i386.rpm gnome-media2-2.0.3-8.i386.rpm gnome-panel-2.0.11-10.i386.rpm gnome-session-2.0.9-11.i386.rpm gnome-terminal-2.0.2-12.i386.rpm gnome-utils2-2.0.6-35.i386.rpm gnome-vfs2-2.0.4.1-8.i386.rpm libgnome-2.0.6-9.i386.rpm metacity-2.4.2-73.i386.rpm nautilus2-2.0.8-8.i386.rpm pango-1.0.5-0.i386.rpm The rpms are build on 14 different build machines, so it is not because a build machine has an incorrect configuration. Is this a bug? -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
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