Gettings your Gnome2 system back

[Daniel Farrell <daniel@farrells.org>]

It's easier than everything everyone has been saying.  Here you go:

Get these packages:


ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libb/libbonoboui/libbonoboui2-0_2.0.3-1_i386.deb
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libb/libbonoboui/libbonoboui2-common_2.0.3-1_i386.deb
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libb/libbonoboui/libbonoboui2-dev_2.0.3-1_i386.deb
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation_1.0.3-2.2_i386.deb
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bonobo-activation/libbonobo-activation4_1.0.3-2.2_i386.deb
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bonobo-activation/libbonobo-activation-dev_1.0.3-2.2_i386.deb

Then run these commands:
dpkg --force-all -P bonobo-activation
dpkg --force-all -P libbonobo-activation4 
dpkg --force-all -P libbonobo-activation-dev
dpkg --force-all -P libbonoboui2-0
dpkg --force-all -P libbonoboui2-common
dpkg --force-all -P libbonoboui2-dev

And this:

dpkg -i libbonobo* bonobo*

>From the directory you downloaded the packages.

You will want to run dselect and put those packages on hold as well so
they don't upgrade again.  That's just an = sign when on the packages. 
That gets you a working system.  Oh, and the new gthumb2 package
requires them so you might have to delete it.

On a side, can someone tell me why messed up packages aren't deleted off
of the distro?

Dan