I don't see exactly what the fuss is. Fonts are fine for me - I do remember previous updates (maybe a month ago) in testing breaking them momentarily, however, so this may not be a GNOME issue. As for the rest of the GNOME2 packages, they're just not here yet - deal with it. I backed up my sources.list, changed it to unstable, did an apt-get update, apt-get install gnome-core, and then restored the old sources.list. Works fine. Nautilus 2 is worlds faster than the original, fonts are nice, everything is anti-aliased, blah, blah, blah... If you're absolutely opposed to any unstable packages, then I guess you're screwed. That's what you get for running testing.
--Todd On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 20:17:46 -0600 "John W. M. Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I upgraded from stable to testing, in order to be able to start using > Gnome2, only to find that there was no good way to get a complete, > usable Gnome2 installation. > > Many things are broken, including: > > 1) Fonts. They are really ugly, and it seems that the previous > defaults were just ignored. > > 2) The Gnome Settings Daemon was not installed, and it repeatedly > complains about that lack. I can't find any package that indicates > that it might contain this semi-mythical daemon. > > 3) It seems impossible to figure out what will conflict with what, > without actually trying just about every combination. Incompatible > packages are all stuffed into the gnome section, with no clue as > to what packages should be installed to get a reasonably complete > Gnome2 installation. I seem to have installed, and uninstalled, > parts of both Gnome and Gnome2 several times now. > > There was rumour of a gnome2 meta package. It doesn't seem to > actually exist. Perhaps it's only in experimental? > > 4) There SHOULD be a way to run both Gnome and Gnome2 on the same > machine, as the major number of the libraries is different, but > the packages seem to be configured in such a way as to insist > that these are incompatible. > > Yes, this will eat up more memory (both library versions must > be resident at the same time), but if Gnome2 in testing simply > isn't yet complete, then I really have no choice. > > Is there any documentation on how, using testing, to get the most > complete (applets, to, please!) Gnome2 installation possible? > > Please, no suggestion about "pinning" anything, as there doesn't > seem to be any documentation or man pages about what that is, or > how to do that, either. > > Thanks, > John S. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
