RE: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg
I could be wrong (I often am), but try:
apt-get install gnome-session
This should get you something. In your .xsession, put the line 'gnome-session'. Maybe someone with more experience can let us know the more preferred way?
Jeremy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Biron [mailto:joe@josephbiron.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 7:03 AM
> To: 'Anand S'
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RE: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg
>
>
> Andy, thanks for your help. I've been removing ximian packages in my
> spare time (HA!) and I seem to have gotten them all. a
>
> dpkg -l | grep ximian
>
> and
>
> dpkg -l | grep xim
>
> yeild nothing. Now, I'm just not sure how to get the Woody-compatible
> version of Gnome installed.
>
> Thanks again,
> Joe
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Anand S [mailto:andyml@nyc.rr.com]
> > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:11 PM
> > To: Joe Biron
> > Cc: 'Anand S'; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 07:09:44AM -0400, Joe Biron wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> >
> > You can remove all the Ximian-gnome packages. It may be a
> > pain, but it can be done. Remove any packages that do not
> > install correctly.
> >
> > If I remember correctly, Ximian gives its libraries names
> > that include "xim" or "ximian". Well, it's easy to see that
> > they didn't come from the official Debian package.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > 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?
> >
> > Remove Ximian sources from the list, though this won't affect
> > removal of the Ximian packages.
> >
> > When you are ready to do a Woody upgrade, you should only
> > have Woody sources in your list. Then you must first upgrade
> > apt-get and dpkg before doing a dist-upgrade. After woody is
> > installed, you can download the gnome packages.
> >
> > If you are a Linux newbie, patience is your best friend. Just
> > keep in mind, that there's plenty of documentation out there
> > to help you through your upgrade troubles.
> >
> > -Andy
> >
> > >
> > > 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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