ERD Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 hi!, is it possible to upgrade my LE2005 installation with gnome 2.8 to gnome 2.10? (via rpms, not compiling) does anyone know of a place to find rpms for gnome 2.10 for mandrake? thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 As far as I know only in cooker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlxMAX Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 It is possible to install Gnome 2.10 from the cooker branch. First, you have to add new media source as a mirror for cooker packages (in Media Manager of MCC). Then look at this link for programs needed to run Gnome 2.10. Finally, you can choose the packages to install in rpmdrake. I did it this way and now Gnome 2.10 runs fine on my computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ERD Posted June 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 (edited) Thanks a lot, ill get right to it. (ill have to start by figuring out what this cooker stuff is :) ) BTW: can you giveme the url of the repository you used, or some other repository where i could find this rpms? Thanks! Edited June 16, 2005 by ERD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Quiksilvers2k Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 I clicked on the Gnome link and I'm unclear on one issue. Should I install the Development library dependencies before installing the Gnome packages or will installing just the packages work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 Excuse me, but don't Gnome in Cooker depend on xorg 6.8.2 and gcc 4.0.1? (to mention just two major dependencies). These two would be enough for a non-experienced user to bring the whole house down in flames... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Quiksilvers2k Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 Has anyone had any luck using garnome? It seems the installation of gnome 2.10 is more trouble than I thought. All I wanted was an updated window list applet where I can close all my windows at once. Should I just try out Mandriva 2006 to get the latest version, instead of going through the hassle of installing gnome 2.10 on 2005? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 If you want GNOME 2.10 and you are inexperienced then you should try unofficial Mandriva repositories like thac or SOS (Seer Of Souls). Still better than messing with cooker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 (edited) Isn't "Seer Of Souls" the (unofficial) repo of that funny guy which attacked Thac on the (official) Mandriva forums about his KDE 3.4.X RPM's being exhessively buggy and useless/harmful? :D I wouldn't dare getting even java apps from his repo... Edited August 9, 2005 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Isn't "Seer Of Souls" the (unofficial) repo of that funny guy which attacked Thac on the (official) Mandriva forums about his KDE 3.4.X RPM's being exhessively buggy and useless/harmful? :DI wouldn't dare getting even java apps from his repo... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Don't know about it, but being too ehm.. "proud" doesn't mean that his packages are useless. Anyway GNOME 2.10 is there ERD just need to try it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Quiksilvers2k Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 (edited) I managed to get Gnome 2.10.2 installed using the Easy Urpmi cooker mirrors, but it has a lot of strange bugs I have no idea how to fix. Installing the Seer of Souls rpm packages produces the same kind of bugs. Here's how I've gone about installing them, and maybe someone can tell me if I'm doing something stupid. I reinstalled Mandriva with only KDE installed, Booted into KDE and added the repo to my sources list, and finally, I did a urpmi gnome2, let the packages install themselves, and rebooted. Edited August 11, 2005 by Quiksilvers2k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted August 11, 2005 Report Share Posted August 11, 2005 Did you reinstall both times? As we said before cooker is the development branch so it's (very) unstable. If you install from cooker it also installs the currently unstable dependencies. If you installed the SOS GNOME over this, some dependency may stayed there. So either reinstall again and then install SOS GNOME, or try Mandriva 2006 beta1 if you feel brave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Quiksilvers2k Posted August 13, 2005 Report Share Posted August 13, 2005 (edited) Thanks for the tip Dexter, I have Gnome 2.10.2 running stable now. Heres how I got it working if anyone else wants to try this: I reinstalled Mandriva 2005 LE (with default packages except mozilla-firefox-1.0.2 , KDE, and mozilla-1.7.6-3mdk.i586.rpm). Once In KDE, I installed mozilla-firefox-1.0.6 from cooker because after trying this so many times, I realized it would take care of some dependencies later on. Nevertheless, I then downloaded all the SOS rpms to a folder and did a urpmi *.rpm. I chose to install package number 1 on the first prompt. The package manager will let you know these packages will not be installed. drakxtools-10.2-24mdk.i586 drakxtools-newt-10.2-24mdk.i586 evolution-2.2.3-5.SoS.i586 (due to unsatisfied libgal-2.4.so.0) evolution-devel-2.2.3-5.SoS.i586 (due to unsatisfied libgal-2.4-devel[>= 2.4.2]) evolution-pilot-2.2.3-5.SoS.i586 (due to missing evolution-2.2.3-5.SoS.i586) gnome-network-1.99.5-6.SoS.i586 (due to unsatisfied tcptraceroute) libMesaGLU1-devel-5.0.2-10.SoS.i586 (due to unsatisfied devel(libnvidia-tls)) libMesaGLU1-devel-5.0.2-9mdk.i586 libMesaglut3-devel-5.0.2-10.SoS.i586 (due to unsatisfied libMesaGLU1-devel[== 5.0.2-10.SoS]) libgnomeuimm2.6_1-2.10.0-2.SoS.i586 (due to unsatisfied libgconfmm-2.6.so.1) libgnomeuimm2.6_1-devel-2.10.0-2.SoS.i586 (due to missing libgnomeuimm2.6_1-2.10.0-2.SoS.i586) libgtkhtml-3.6_18-devel-3.6.2-3.SoS.i586 (due to unsatisfied gtkhtml-3.6[== 3.6.2-3.SoS]) This is the step where I kept messing up my installation. I wanted to get these packages installed as well, and knowing that Mandriva 2005 could not take care of their dependcies, I enabled cooker sources to take care of them. Unfortunately, this caused my installation to come down in flames when cooker tried to update my entire system with unstable packages. The way I got past this step was to let the package manager continue installing with cooker sources excluded and then after it was completed, to take care of these packages one at a time. Accordingly, I installed the problematic packages in the order they were shown to me(though the order is probably not important) with cooker sources active. Unfortunately, for some reason unknown to me, libMesaglut3-devel-5.0.2-10.SoS.i586.rpm and libgtkhtml-3.6_18-devel-3.6.2-3.SoS.i586.rpm would not install no matter what I did. However, after installing them from cooker, my Gnome 2.10.2 booted up fine, and I have yet to see any of my previous bugs or glitches :D. Edited August 13, 2005 by Quiksilvers2k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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