Re: To get GNOME2, should I Upgrade or Dist-Upgrade or... ?
arief_mulya <arief@bna.telkomsel.co.id> writes:
> Dear all,
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> I kept getting wonder and never be sure about this whenever I'm
> reaching this step.
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> The thing is, I finally want to upgrade my GNOME1.4 to GNOME2. I know
> that there's woody backport of GNOME2, but I wanted to have the latest
> version of it, and continue to watch it.
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> My current laptop is Sarge.What should I need to do to have GNOME2
> installed. Upgrade? Dist-Upgrade? OR.. ? Oh one more thing, I try not
> to compile it from sources myself.. at least not now. So the option of
> downloading tarballs is not suitable, yet.
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> I have done a dist-upgrade to get GNOME2 before, but it was about a
> year ago. I can't forget much of the stuff I do then, and I'm pretty
> sure that many things has change now, hasn't it?
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I was in your situation and added sources.list lines that point to sid
and then upgraded via dselect, resolving conflicts as necesary.
Hope it helps,
jsf
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