Anyone played with Gnome 2.4, apt-getting from any unstable or sid sources from a fresh install? I found some stuff over on the Libranet Forum, but seem to have killed nautilus, or GDesklets killed it Heres the play by play:

1. Fresh, clean working install of 2.8
2. Intsalled Gdesklets and Gdesklets-data, allowing all dependencies to be installed.
3. Restart X and log into GDM as usual, all is good.
4. While the desktop is loading, I get as far as the taskbars loading, but then I get a nautilis has crashed type message, click cancel and boom, there it is again.
5. Log out and try some other wm's, all work fine.

>>>>I did the same thing on my laptop and after a synaptic update and upgrade all, gnome is good to go, but on this desktop, it seems to remain broken even after a update > upgrade-all.

Soooo, I'm thinking maybe dist-upgrade or adding some gnome 2.4 sources to my source.list file....... Anyone have a good source for 2.4, I know it is still unstable in the Debian world. Anyone tried it? Thanks.

A dist-upgrade should get it. I noticed on my machine that a lot more 2.4 packages were installed the other day, but I use KDE so I am not sure if it is fully 2.4 yet.

Well, I put the debian unstable branch in my sources and did a full dist-upgrade, had to just reload the machine, it was a mess. Lots of screwed up dependencies and KDE problems, I think I'll just stick with the stock .debs and wait it out. Maybe the libranet guys will work on something for the new Gnome. I'm doing a dist-upgrade on the new install, I noticed that some of the packages for gnome are 2.4, but not the "core", so I'll take the stability over the madness for the time being. Thanks for the reply.

Regards,

Cool, a Libranet forum

Anyway, I just installed Gnome 2.4 from unstable. It all seems to work fine.
Best thing you can do is delete Gnome 2.2 and install Gnome 2.4 fresh from unstable repository.

I did it from Failsafe Term

I bought 2.81 and must say that it is great. It is easy to install and easy to use. I have been using gnome and fluxbox not sure yet which i'll stay with. One thing that I have not been able to figure out yet is the apt upgrades.

From what I understand so far is that libranet does not use in all cases the same versions of a program that may be out in apt-get update. So to be safe it is best to use libranet as a source for apt-get update. If you don't you can trash you system by using files from other apt-get sources?

Even if you have access to all of the debian sources you can not use them. How do you know what one's you can use and what not to use. All of this is very hard for me to understand. Libranet uses apt-get to update but to be safe you only can use files from there source list.

The first time i installed 2.81 I did a apt-get update and then a apt-get upgrade. It really messed things up and I had to reinstall the distro to get it fixed.

Thanks

How can I apt-get gnome 2.4 in GNU/Libranet?

Just do a apt-get dist-upgrade from the unstable repository.
Gnome 2.4.1 is in unstable now.

I did it and nothing was broken (haven't noticed anything broken yet though)
Mixing unstable and testing is dangerous, especially when updating Gnome libraries, it's better to fully update to Unstable or remain at Testing.
Pinning apps from unstable works of course, it they're not specifically gnome related or have dependencies, then it's fine. Otherwise, things may break.

element,

Thnx


mil0t = q0ban

It works fine for me. I removed the testing sources and put in unstable ones, did a apt-get dist-upgrade and its working fine