On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:02:21AM +0100, Spiritchaser wrote:
>apt-get -t experimental install gnome
# grep experimental /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main
deb http://pkg-gnome.alioth.debian.org/debian experimental main
# apt-get -t experimental install gnome
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
gnome is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 104 not upgraded.
I.e. there is no package called gnome in experimental, hence a reason
for my origianl question--why isn't there such a package?
/M
>On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 11:05 +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 02:28:47PM -0300, Igor Morgado wrote:
>> >Good Question..
>> >To solve this problem a have done this:
>> >
>> >apt-get install -yuf bug-buddy gnome-control-center dasher eog
>> >epiphany file-roller gcalctool gconf-editor gdm gedit gnome-applets
>> >gnome-games gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring gnome-mag gnome-media
>> >gnomemeeting gnome-nettool gnome-panel gnome-session
>> >gnome-system-monitor gnome-system-tools gnome-terminal gnome-themes
>> >gnome-utils gnome-volume-manager gnopernicus gok gpdf gucharmap
>> >metacity nautilus nautilus-cd-burner nautilus-media scrollkeeper yelp
>> >zenity gnome-netstatus-applet libgnome-speech3 totem-gstreamer
>> >gstreamer-misc gstreamer-player gstreamer-plugins gstreamer-tools
>> >gtk-engines-begtk gtk-engines-eazel gtk-engines-geramik
>> >gtk-engines-geramik-data gtk-engines-icegradient
>> >gtk-engines-industrial gtk-engines-lighthouseblue gtk-engines-mac2
>> >gtk-engines-metal gtk-engines-mist gtk-engines-notif
>> >gtk-engines-pixmap gtk-engines-qtpixmap gtk-engines-raleigh
>> >gtk-engines-redmond95 gtk-engines-smooth gtk-engines-thingeramik
>> >gtk-engines-thingeramik-data gtk-engines-thinice
>> >gtk-engines-xenophilia gstreamer0.8-esd rpm esound-clients ntp
>> >gnome-themes-extras gok-doc gstreamer-player-nautilus
>> >libqt3c102-mt-psql libqt3c102-mt-mysql libqt3c102-mt-odbc sidplay-base
>> >xsidplay mpg321 sharutils lzop gnome2-user-guide gstreamer0.8-plugins
>> >libatk1.0-data dvd+rw-tools gstreamer0.8-dvd alien -t experimental
>>
>> This sure is a long list of packages. I tried using 'aptitude' to avoid
>> it, but instead it seems that the gnome package in Sid (version 59 I
>> believe) depends on specific versions of packages ('=' is used instead
>> of '=<', maybe for good reasons) and a recent upgrade from experimental
>> removed my 'gnome' package. Since I mix usage of 'apt-get' 'aptitude'
>> and 'debfoster' (which might be stupid) I immediately ended up in a
>> situation where 'debfoster' all of a sudden saw a lot of packages that
>> had been orphaned. I opted for 'apt-get install gnome' and a few of the
>> Gnome2.8 packages were removed :( I'd really like to eat the cake and
>> keep it too.
>>
>> /M
>>
>> >
>> >On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:16:09 +0200, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
>> >> This might be a silly question, but why isn't there a meta-package for
>> >> gnome in experimental?
>> >>
>> >> (The only reason I could think of was that it might be uninstallable too
>> >> often to be useful due to frequent updates of the packages. But why does
>> >> it work in unstable then?)
>> >>
>> >> /M
>> >>
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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