Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
>
> I had Gnome working pretty nicely (installed using apt). I have been
> using apt-get to upgrade my system regularly; one upgrade broke Gnome,
> and I couldn't figure out which. So I have purged all Gnome
> packages.
>
> Are step my step instructions available somewhere for getting and
> installing Gnome .debs?
>
> I have these lines in /etc/apt/sources.list.
>
> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US
> > deb http://www.debian.org/~mblevin/gnome-apt ./
> > deb http://www.debian.org/~bma enlightenment/
> > deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian potato rkrusty
> > deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable
> > main
>
> I now note that the last line says "slink"; however this problem came
> along long before that. Is the slink gnome incompatible with potato?
>
> Thanks.
The order of install probably isn't the problem. A recent post
on the GNOME mailing list mentioned an error that has been fixed
in the CVS, but obviously not gotten into the GNOME debs yet. I
don't think GNOME is as stable as its v1.x version number
implies. I had a problem with the interaction between GNOME and
Enlightenment which apparently was fixed by installing them in a
different order (GNOME first, then E). The sloooow startup time
problem is still there, and probably won't be fixed until the
next, supposedly stable, version.
--
Ed C.
