Re: upgrading to gnome3

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

David Roguin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com 
> <mailto:hvw59601@care2.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I found a site that describes upgrading to gnome3:
>     http://raphaelhertzog.com/__2011/06/16/installing-gnome-3-__on-debian-6-0-squeeze-no-__sorry/
>     <http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/06/16/installing-gnome-3-on-debian-6-0-squeeze-no-sorry/>
>
>     It involves pinning to experimental.
>
>     I did just that, but dist-upgrade did not upgrade gnome-session.
>
>     Is the method described correct?
>
>     Hugo
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've used this method: 
> http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/04/18/status-update-of-gnome-3-in-debian-experimental/ 
> which is basically the same but using sid instead of testing, and it 
> worked for me.

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David, I followed that and this is what I get:

root@HDBB:/etc/apt/preferences.d# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  brasero deskbar-applet gnome-about gnome-applets gnome-commander 
gnome-control-center gnome-netstatus-applet gnome-panel
  gnome-power-manager gnome-session gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-fuse 
libbonoboui2-0 libgnome2-0 libgnomeui-0
  libpanel-applet2-0 nautilus python-gnome2 python-gnomeapplet 
sensors-applet
The following packages have been kept back:
  compiz-gnome compizconfig-backend-gconf python-software-properties 
software-properties-gtk
The following packages will be upgraded:
  alsa-utils apt apt-utils aptitude at-spi comerr-dev desktop-base 
dictionaries-common diff diffutils dpkg dpkg-dev
  e2fslibs e2fsprogs git git-man iftop initscripts libatspi1.0-0 
libcairo-perl libcomerr2 libdpkg-perl libffi5
  libgd2-noxpm libgdu0 libglib-perl libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data 
libhtml-parser-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libmp3lame0
  libqdbm14 libss2 libusb-1.0-0 libvirtodbc0 libwnck-3-0 
libwnck-3-common libwnck-common libwnck22 libxml-xpathengine-perl
  syslinux syslinux-common sysstat sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-utils 
virtuoso-minimal virtuoso-opensource-6.1-bin
  virtuoso-opensource-6.1-common xserver-common xserver-xephyr 
xserver-xorg-core
52 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 21 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 45.1 MB disk space will be freed.
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Where gnome-session just gets deleted and not updated.

Hugo