On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 09:24:44PM -0400, James Strandboge wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 19:56, Praveen Kallakuri wrote: > > hello, > > > > i was running kde 3 on xfree 4.3 on my woody. i decided to try gnome2.2 and > > read that it requires xfree4.2.1. so i got the binaries of xf4.2 and > > installed the mandatory one's without overwriting my /etc and xdm/xinit > > config files. i then bumped to 4.2.1 using its binaries using pretty much > > the same process. > > xfree86 4.3 requires freetype 2.1.3, which conflicts with fontconfig in > the backport. fontconfig is required by libpango1.0-0 and pango is > required by gtk+2.0 and everything else depends on that. So nothing > installs. > > If you have an up to date xfree86 4.3 with freetype 2.1.3 and > fontconfig, png, and xft2 from the below sources, you will be able to > install gnome2.2 after this evening. > > deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386/ ./ > deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/fontconfig/i386/ ./ > deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xft/i386/ ./ > deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/freetype/i386/ ./ > deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/libpng/i386/ ./ > deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/debconf/i386/ ./ > > gnome2.2 will install. I fixed a dependency in pango to allow this. >
Great! Can you give us a shout when it works (together with fool-proof instructions ;) ? Antony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
