Re: Installing GNOME
Le lundi 14 mai 2007 à 08:32 +0200, Petr Salinger a écrit :
> 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.
Thanks for the info. A little late, though, as I don't feel like
reinstalling now downgrading now.
However, this machine is not critical to me, I just installed it to see
how faster Debian GNU/kFreeBSD can be compared to GNU/Linux on aging
machines (early PII/III-class, of which I maintain a lot).
I'm willing to help fix the problems though. So I first try to notice,
then report, then try to provide a fix.
> Petr
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