On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:27:42PM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I am trying to install gnome on my PowerBook 17 which is running > testing. Unfortunately I can't get gnome-session to run at all. I have > used gnome 1.4 in the past on powerpc and intel machines and have been > very happy. It seems testing has a mixture of gnome 2.2 and 2.4 and > some of the packages seem to conflict with each other. Also I have read > that there have been some problems with powerpc ports which is very sad. As far as I know, all of GNOME in testing is GNOME 2.2 still. Not even the 2.4 libs have hit Sarge yet, but that could happen sometime soon. GNOME on testing/powerpc should work well. > What is the most stable and/or recent version of Gnome that runs on > powerpc machines (1.4, 2.2, 2.4, other) ? All 3 of them should work ok: 1.4 in Woody, 2.2 in Sarge, 2.4 in Sid. What exact problem do you have? Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jordi@sindominio.net jordi@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/~jordi/
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