Re: going from XFCE to Gnome?
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:21:24 +0200
Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 04:40:17 +0200, andreas.ronnquist@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm on an etch box running XFCE, and now I would like to play with Gnome
> > some (after a long pause from it). Trying to install
> > gnome-desktop-environment (or other packages pulling in gnome) using
> > aptitude I run into some unmet dependencies and clashes gamin->fam. Is
> > there a smooth way around this on an Etch machine?
> >
>
> The solution proposed by aptitude seems reasonable to me. libgamin0
> provides and replaces both libfam0c102 and libfam0, so any feature that
> relies on FAM libraries should also work with gamin installed.
> Furthermore, the package description of gamin states that it "has been
> designed as a drop-in replacement for FAM".
>
I was a bit worried it would screw up my xfce install, but discovered
that running aptitude --without-recommends did the trick.
Thanks guys!
/Andreas
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