Re: Gnome 2.10 on Testing

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

Mark Crean wrote:

> Hi
>
> I recently installed Debian testing. However, I wonder if there is a way
> to upgrade from Gnome 2.8 to Gnome 2.10 without have to dist-upgrade the
> whole shebang to unstable? I am fairly new to Debian and stability does
> matter to a degree - for example, I have spent ages setting up
> exim4/cyrus/exiscan and Lamp, etc. on my machine and want them to
> continue to work!
>
> TIA
>
> :)Fish
How about

apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment

It will update only the gnome packages and other packages remain as they 
are. Running a mixed system (testing + unstable) is considered an 
"expert's only" task. Try to stick with just one distribution (be it 
stable or testing or unstable).

raju

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