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On 05/26/2011 07:04 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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> On Thu, May 26 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>>> Thank you. Some forum posts suggest that upgrading to gnome3 from |
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>>> gnome2 is difficult. Did you |
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>>> 1. Upgrade from 2.32.1 |
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>>> 2. Unmerge 2.32.1 then merge 3 |
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>>> 3. Do a fresh install of gentoo w/o gnome and then install gnome3 |
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>>> 4. Do something else |
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>> All of the above? :D |
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>> I keyworded and unmasked the necessary packages to make |
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>> =gnome-base/gnome-3.0.0 emergable; then I upgraded like usual. There |
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>> were some problems, but usually solvable by emerge -C the offending |
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>> package (and older version, generally). I removed (after backup) |
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>> ~/.gconf, ~/.gnome2* ~/.metacity ~/.nautilus and ~/.evolution (I |
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>> *think* this was not really necessary, by I wanted to see a "pristine" |
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>> GNOME 3). At the end, I emerge --depclean, and then after a couple of |
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>> emerge -uDNvp world everything went to normal. I haven't had any |
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>> problem since then. |
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>> Oh, at some point I emerge @preserved-rebuild and then again emerge |
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>> --depclean. |
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>> It took a couple of days of try/error, and be warned that you should |
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>> do this fom a VT, not from X (unless you do it under twm or something |
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>> like that). |
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> Sounds like I should do it on my spare laptop first. |
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> thanks again. |
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Have you considered doing all of this experimenting on a virtual machine? |
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VirtualBox is so easy to use now, I will definitely try gnome3 on a VM |
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before "upgrading" on this machine, which is the one I use for real work. |
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