RE: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg
What are the packages to install for Gnome on woody? On my woody
system, I did apt-get install x-window-system, but twm just isn't my
type :-)
I've seen that there are several packages (gnome-base or something, etc)
that look like you would need to install, but is there an easier way (a
la apt-get install task-gnome)?
Jeremy
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Biron [mailto:joe@josephbiron.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 6:10 AM
To: 'Anand S'
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg
Uh boy. So how to I rectify this? I do have several packages that are
not installing correctly, such as libgnomeprint-data and other packages
that are in its depends tree.
Should I remove the Ximian sources from my sources.list and then
"apt-get remove" each gnome package? If I do a dist-upgrade after that,
will I get the Woody-compatible gnome?
Thanks,
Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anand S [mailto:andyml@nyc.rr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:47 AM
> To: Joe Biron
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg
>
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:37:45PM -0400, Joe Biron wrote:
> > Could someone point a newbie to an explanation of the
> Debian release
> > universe? A friend explained it to me as "Woody is the
> newest... you
> > want Woody". Well, is Potato then the "stable" and Woody the
> > "testing"? My \etc\apt\sources.list is
> >
> > #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> > #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US
> main contrib
> > non-free #deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates
> main contrib
> > non-free #deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/non-US stable
> main contrib
> > non-free
> >
> > # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
> #deb-src
> > http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib
> non-free #deb-src
> > http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
> >
> > # added for Ximian gnome
> > deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main
> >
> > # added for woody update
> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US
> main contrib
> > non-free
> >
> > Now, I'm not just a Debian newbie, I'm sort of a Linux
> intermediabie,
> > and as I edited sources.list, I had no clue as to what I was doing,
> > but nevertheless, I seem to have the latest versions of
> Debian (3.0?)
> > and GNOME, after hours of playing with apt-get. So I'm
> happy for now,
> > but I need some background.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Don't use Ximian gnome with woody. Ximian gnome was designed
> to work with potato, not woody. Since you are using MS
> Outlook Express, a similar analogy in the Windows world would
> be downloading software for windows 95 and expecting it to
> work perfectly with windows 98. It may not happen in all cases.
>
> Debian has it's own gnome packages, and you should use those.
> Ximian gnome is postively disastrous for a Woody system.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Andy
>
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