Re: Installing Gnome 2.12 with apt-get...
> I had the same problem using apt-get, and the advice I was given was
> to use the command:
>
> aptitude -t experimental install ....
Yes, I already had this answer, which is correct, but I'd like to
understand if it is really not possible to do the same thing with
apt-get !!!
If it is the only answer you received, I think it is not ;-)
> And this worked fine. Think carefully, there is some strange behavior
> in the current package tree, (or I don't know what I'm doing, also an
> option).
>
> You've been warned.
>
> -dave
I know it's dangerous, but I like this ;-)
Thank you.
David.
> On 11/10/05, David BERCOT <david.bercot@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I hope I am on the right list...
> > > I'd like to install Gnome 2.12 but I have some
> dependencies problems.
> > > If I do : apt-get install -t experimental gnome, it needs
> other packages
> > > from experimental but, if I'm right, apt does not search
> them in
> > > experimental.
> > > Do you know if there is a command line which says to apt
> to install
> > > gnome from experimental, and, if necessary, others
> packages from the
> > > same source ?
> >
> > This command line should do the trick. What is failing
> exactly?
>
> I thought it was ok too, but...
>
> First of all, I do a :
> apt-get install -t experimental gnome -s
> Then, it says than gnome-desktop-environment as a version
> problem.
> OK. So, I do a :
> apt-get install -t experimental gnome
> gnome-desktop-environment -s
> Then, it is ok for gnome-desktop-environment, but other
> packages have
> the same problem. I would be a big big work to specify all
> dependencies
> in the command line ;-)
> Perhaps the problem is only for experimental because I
> remember I did
> such thinks with unstable and it worked...
>
> Thank you.
>
> David.
>
>
>
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