Guest slither Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 What rpm's are necessary to get Gnome 2.8 to work? Thanks in advance... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 (edited) you might find some info there → gnome.org - 2.8 desktop & developer platform but i am afraid you will have to compile it from sources. but you can alternatively grab the 2.6 rpms from cooker. or simply install ubuntu-linux :P Edited September 27, 2004 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest slither Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 Thanks for the quick reply, guess I'll go with 2.6 for now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 last info: gnome "2.8" (actually it is 2.7 branch) for mandrake is available here http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~wa.../gnome2.7/RPMS/ but beware! it is still in testing phase (cooker!), so it could leave your whole gnome desktop system messed up = useless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=18738 just did this again yesterday with the newer pkgs and all is working :P as opposed to the first attempt a week ago. BE WARNED: be prepared to do some repairing from cli if it doesn't work out for you. NOTE: You have to be 10.1 (cooker) not 10 to use them. Took me a couple of hours to get everything straight again and remove the crud to get a cleaner base to install from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 last info: gnome "2.8" (actually it is 2.7 branch) for mandrake is available herehttp://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~wa.../gnome2.7/RPMS/ but beware! it is still in testing phase (cooker!), so it could leave your whole gnome desktop system messed up = useless. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> those are 2.8 and not cooker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 cool... why do they call the directory 2.7 then... bunch of idiots only wanted to make me look bad. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest slither Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 Decided to test 2.8 and actually got it working... (shocker!) Thanks for all the replies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 (edited) on mandy 10.1 CE or 10.0 OE? (which would be a real surprise) Edited September 28, 2004 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 these rpms are built against Cooker. 10.1CE and Cooker are currently the same (assuming you update your CE from online repositories) so it will obviously work with both. The directory is called 2.7 because Goetz started building these several months back when it was still the 2.7 dev branch, and the directory serves as an urpmi repository so changing the name would force everyone to change their urpmi settings. The rpms will not work with 10.0 as they have several 10.1 specific dependencies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdemers883 Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 well, I might as well jump in on this thread since it pretty much pertains to a question I was about to ask. I was wondering about upgrading to gnome 2.8 but since it's still in cooker and could mess up my system I think I should hold off till I'm more comfortable with linux. I'm guessing getting gnome 2.6 should be no problem though. I'm guessing I could do this through urpmi (not sure, I just started using urpmi yesterday) and if so what would be the command. Wlould a simple urpmi gnome work or would urpmi upgrade gnome Sorry if my question seems obvious, I"m still learning :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 (edited) whenever doing something big like that, especially gnome, do not be logged into gnome. Either be in another de/wm or better...init 3. The do, if you haven't already, and want to be sure your sources are updated urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select but that will get more than gnome if other pkgs are available. urpmi gnome-session will get you gnome, or at least the gnome core. Edited October 1, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdemers883 Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 whenever doing something big like that, especially gnome, do not be logged into gnome. Either be in another de/wm or better...init 3. The do, if you haven't already, and want to be sure your sources are updatedurpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select but that will get more than gnome if other pkgs are available. urpmi gnome-session will get you gnome, or at least the gnome core. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> But neither of those options would get me a full gnome system, just core? Would it be better for me to download all the rpms via ftp and install them in init 3 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 it's best just to do urpmi --auto-select If there's anything you do not want upgraded, put them in /etc/urpmi/skip.list I currently have in there kernel kernel-source lilo grub initscripts but put whatever you want...urpmi should workout everything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdemers883 Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 it's best just to dourpmi --auto-select If there's anything you do not want upgraded, put them in /etc/urpmi/skip.list I currently have in there kernel kernel-source lilo grub initscripts but put whatever you want...urpmi should workout everything <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ah, I think I see what you are saying. Doing "urpmi --auto-select" is going to grab everything that can be updated...except for the stuff that I specifically list in the skip.list file that I don't want upgraded. Thanks for the explanation bvc, helpful as always Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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