Re: Installing GNOME

[Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>]

Hi.

> > I just tried the latest installation CD of GNU/kFreeBSD today.
> > It seems to work fine, except several things.
> >
> > The first one is that I cannot get to install GNOME. Several unsolvable
> > dependencies are making it impossible, while it works in GNU/Linux Sid.
> > How should I report this, and how could I help solving it?
> > I'm already  confident with packaging for Debian GNU/Linux, but I'm not
> > a DD, though I would love to become one someday.
>
> This is a known problem. The main server of GNU/kFreeBSD has experienced
> a downtime, which prevents packages from being built for two weeks.
>
> We are now trying to build the missing packages, but it has to be done
> in the correct order, so there is a lot of work. KDE suffer from the
> same problem.

You can also put into /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.gnuab.org/debian-snapshot/2007-04-05 unstable main
deb http://ftp.gnuab.org/debian-snapshot/2007-04-05 unreleased main
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian dists/etch/main/binary-i386/

and comment-out all other lines (and refresh Packages by "apt-get update").

This way, you will get etch based snapshot, which does not contain
many unsolvable dependencies. This should be sufficient for
installing GNOME.

Petr