Thu, 03 Nov 2005

Installing GNOME 2.12 in Debian

GNOME 2.12 is mostly in experimental now (for i386, builds for powerpc are very welcome), only missing a control center and gnome-panel upload, plus gal being ACCEPTed so evolution 2.4 can be installed.

Trying these packages is easy: on an up to date unstable system, just issue:

apt-get install -t experimental gnome-desktop-environment

Due to a dbus transition, you might get some packages removed if they don't have an experimental build using the new versions. In many cases, there's nothing we can do about it so it's a matter of waiting.

The good news is that KDE has finally entered testing, so I'd expect that we'll be able to upload all of these packages to unstable quite soon. Hopefully before April, when GNOME 2.14 is due. :)

Update: By the way, in case you're still cursing about that major evolution breakage the other day... yes, it was totally me to blame. :)

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Is there a place where one can download packages before they are officially accpeted? It has been a month that gal is stuck in the NEW queue, and I think that the package currently in the queue is not even the one you need for Evolution 2.4.

Thanks!

Martijn

Posted by Martijn at Fri Nov 4 01:02:09 2005

Uh, Gnome 2.14.0 is due mid-March (http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointThirteen).  ;-)

Posted by Elijah at Fri Nov 4 01:18:49 2005

Elijah, yeah. I was confused by both Ubuntu releases and 2.x.1 GNOME releases (which is what we tend to upload to unstable). But yeah, point. :)

Martin, no; for licensing or security reasons. If the maintainer uploads to an alternate location it's completely up to them.

Posted by jordi at Fri Nov 4 01:48:19 2005

Kool! Keep up the good work!

Posted by atte at Fri Nov 4 17:37:47 2005

Hmm .. I have done that and now Evolution doesn't have a mail component anymore. Is that the breakage you're talking about ? If yes, can you tell how to repair that ?

Thanks,

  Xav

Posted by xav at Fri Nov 4 19:24:22 2005

As Xav, I don't have the mail stuff in Evolution anymore. I hope you can repair it soon or I won't give you more Montreal bus tickets to get to your place without freezing.

Posted by Vicente at Sat Nov 5 05:40:48 2005

I'd try the new gnome if it wouldn't require me to uninstall k3b - the only KDE application I actually care about...

Posted by Erich at Sun Nov 6 16:18:48 2005

Frankly, I uninstalled k3b when I discovered GnomeBaker, which is becoming pretty mature now.

Posted by FL at Mon Nov 7 11:03:18 2005

Can anyone comment about his transition to gnome 2.12 in experimental? Is evo the only app who doesn't work properly?

I want to switch my 2.12 jhbuild gnome to HEAD, but dont want to loose 2.12...

Posted by claudio at Mon Nov 7 12:13:54 2005

Ok, so we're working on the evolution issues. It's not pleasant, some bugs in eds and evo are fucking the contact book and so on, but Loïc is having a look.

This evo issue is the only outstanding thing I can see while running it on ppc.

If k3b is getting uninstalled, it's probably because KDE hasn't transitioned to the new dbus.

Posted by Jordi at Mon Nov 7 17:07:53 2005