How can I install gnome 2.4 on my debian woody 3.0? I prefer to do it the apt-get way. I know I have to edit my sources.list but with what and what is the next step?
I searched google for it but i couldn't find a decent how-to

I strongly suggest you don't try it, but if you don't mind reinstalling everything if you hose your system you could add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list:Again, this is not stable and it's unwise, perhaps even stupid, to attempt this. A much more sane way would be using Garnome. Garnome is installed in your home directory and will not interfere with system-wide installed packages (such as the ones you would break if you attempt to install Gnome 2.4 from SID).

Håkan

it's also silly from a secure system point of view since this is not even a repository provided by debian distro's (even though the person running it is a debian developer).

I already discovered that it is almost impossible to install Gnome 2.4 on woody. So i did a dist-upgrade to debian sid(unstable). And will now try to install gnome 2.4

I did the dist-upgrade. It gave me some problems but it's done now. I added the line:
deb http://people.debian.org/ ~fpeters/gnome2.4/
to my sources.list did a apt-get update.

But how do i know that when i do apt-get install gnome it will install gnome 2.4 and not gnome 2.0

You could check with dselect - look up the metapackage gnome2 and see what version it lists. First use the "update" in dselect though, otherwise the new stuff won't be shown.

Håkan

By the way, I just finished building Garnome Gnome 2.4 on Debian Sarge today. Geez, building Mozilla took as long as building everything else combined. The end result is very pleasing - I am now running Gnome 2.4 installed in /usr/local/garnome and everything works very smoothly, even on my 366MHz laptop with 192MB RAM. The script on the Garnome homepage for adding Garnome to the GDM menu worked flawlessly. I recommend it.

I had some problems though:

Render and Xrender locations are wrong. Open the Makefile (in the bootstrap/render and bootstrap/xrender dirs) for each and change MASTER_SITES to http://pdx.freedesktop.org/Software/...nfig/releases/ - works fine after doing that.

About halfway into the building process some dependancy problems popped up. I had to build and install Mozilla (in misc/mozilla) in order to satisfy the dependancies. Something - I don't remember what - needed mozilla-gtkmozembed.pc - but building and installing Mozilla solved that problem.

You will need to download these debs from www.gnomemeeting.org to be able to build and install GnomeMeeting. The files needed are:
asnparser_1.5.2-1_i386.deb
libpt-dev_1.5.2-1_i386.deb
libpt-1.5.2_1.5.2-1_i386.deb
libopenh323-1.12.2_1.12.2-1_i386.deb
libopenh323-dev_1.12.2-1_i386.deb

I think that about covers it. It's really worth it, but make sure you have a lot of time.

Håkan