Re: GNOME2 in experimental
- To: seb128 <seb128@debian.org>
- Cc: Rob Bradford <rob@debianplanet.org>, debian-gtk-gnome <debian-gtk-gnome@lists.debian.org>
- Subject: Re: GNOME2 in experimental
- From: Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>
- Date: 05 Sep 2002 22:35:50 +0200
- Message-id: <1031258151.3544.2563.camel@tibook>
- In-reply-to: <1031257461.22605.2.camel@seb128>
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On Don, 2002-09-05 at 22:24, seb128 wrote:
> Le jeu 05/09/2002 à 22:13, Michel Dänzer a écrit :
>
> > Why don't they apt-get -t experimental install gnome2, as indicated on
> > http://www.hadess.net/idoru.php3, which is linked from
> > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/ ?
>
> Because gnome2 is a meta-package, and it's broken most of the time (one
> missing depends and install doesn't work).
Indeed, there was a problem with one of its dependencies (gnome-games
IIRC) for a friend yesterday, but adding it to the install line worked.
> So the easiest way to upgrade all gnome2 packages is to use
> dist-upgrade -t experimental ...
Well, then they get what they deserve for being so lazy. ;) It's called
'experimental' for a reason...
--
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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