[64studio-devel] Backport of GNOME 2.18

[Lincoln Spiteri]

Hi Free,

Yes seems to work fine here too. Been working all morning with gnome
upgraded. Only issue is that I lost synaptic due to missing
dependencies but I managed to re-install using apt-get.

Lincoln

On 04/08/07, Free Ekanayaka <free at 64studio.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've almost completed the backport of GNOME 2.18 for etch. It seems to
> work fine on this 64 Studio 2.0 box, but before including it in the
> testing repository I would like to have some more feedback.
>
> To install it from a plain 2.0 (or from bleeding-edge 64studio/testing)
> just add this repo to your sources:
>
> deb http://apt.64studio.com/backports etch main contrib non-free
>
> and run:
>
> apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Make also sure that you don't have repos other than 64studio (either
> stable or testing) and etch. Note that apt will probably want to
> remove the update-manager package, that's fine (I didn't backport it
> yet). If you get questions about configuration files just answer "yes"
> (that means "install the new maintainer version") and after the
> process run:
>
> update-dspyco-skel
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/64studio-themes.postinst configure
>
> if you want to restore the 64studio customisations.
>
> I would like to know your impressions about this new 2.18 version, in
> particular if it makes a real difference wrt 2.14 and if it is worth
> to include it in the forthcoming 3.0, which will most probably based
> again on Etch (lenny is still far away) and so would otherwise sport
> GNOME 2.14 again.
>
> Personally, even if I would find it a pity to release 64 Studio with
> GNOME 2.14, now that we are approaching GNOME 2.20, I would
> nevertheless stick to GNOME 2.14, because the port of 2.18 involve
> more than one hundred packages and the divergence to etch would be
> significant. On the other hand some people could possibly find it odd,
> that 64 Studio runs such an old GNOME and choose more up to date
> alternatives.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Free
>
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