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Re: Path to Gnome2?



On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 04:28, Carl B. Constantine wrote:
> Is there an upgrade path to Gnome2 for Woody or Sid? Something that
> properly removes all the other gnome libs and apps and upgrades to the
> new ones? Though I know many apps do not yet use the new GTK+2/Gnome2
> libs.
> 
> I'm sure the two can co-exist, so what are people's experiences in
> updating to the new Gnome?
> 
You should really read the achives for debian-gtk-gnome and post your
message there. The two sets of Debian executables cannot coexist because
we install into their proper locations governed by policy, ie
/usr/[share|bin|sbin|etc] where the previous 1.3 version exists.
Libraries can coexist so you can run GNOME 1.4 apps even if your session
is handled by GNOME2.

You can download packages with non-simultaenously installable
executables from experimental. Libraries maybe in both unstable and/or
experimental.

The upgrade will become more and more smoothe as time progresses,
primarily because the Debian dependency system in excellent and tools
for managing the dependencies are well written.

Cheers
-- 
Rob 'robster' Bradford
http://robster.org.uk

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