Hello. I have been reading the web archive of this mailing list, trying to sort out how I can install GNOME 2.0 on my Debian desktop system. (This is the first time I have attempted to do anything with experimental packages.)
I have added these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:
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# Debian Experimental (GNOME 2.0!)
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main
# GNOME 2.0 metapackage first-cut
deb http://people.debian.org/~walters/debian/staging/ ./
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~walters/debian/staging/ ./
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I have added these lines to /etc/apt/preferences:
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Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 1000
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And I updated. I attempted to install the "gnome2" package.
gnome2 depends on nautilus2.
nautilus2 depends on libnautilus2.
libnautilus2 depends on librsvg2-2 (>= 2.0.0).
I cannot seem to find any librsvg2-2 at all. Other GNOME 2 packages seem to depend on librsvg2-1, which does exist. Is there a librsvg2-2 coming, or is there a problem in the dependencies for libnautilus2?
If libnautilus2 actually wants librsvg2-1, is there a way for me to convince apt to install? I know that I could manually download the libnautilus2 package, and then use dpkg with --force-depends, but it would be more elegant to be able to just tell apt to force depends.