how to install gnome 3 ?

Edward.H · 2011-03-17 08:09:26

I want to try gnome 3 ,but how to install it in Arch linux. Is there any tutorial? thanks

Allan · 2011-03-17 08:10:17

Search the forums. You will find all the info is available.

toad · 2011-03-17 08:11:14

And the wiki. I think there even is a page on gnome3.

Edward.H · 2011-03-17 08:15:59

Allan wrote:

Search the forums. You will find all the info is available.

I tried but without luck.

ngoonee · 2011-03-17 08:28:04

Edward.H wrote:

Allan wrote:
Search the forums. You will find all the info is available.
I tried but without luck.

What exactly did you try? If you don't explain noone can help you.

Besides, gnome 3 isn't exactly very ready yet, according to the dev handling the build. If you've searched you'd have seen that in the large thread about it.

wonder · 2011-03-17 08:42:14

@ngoonee it was some time ago but now is stable. I'm waiting for rc to make it public.

As for Edward.H the key search is "gnome-unstable"

abarilla · 2011-03-17 16:49:38

They're aren't fully adequate instructions on installing gnome 3. There's a few posts from last year, but there's missing dependencies.

If you're like me, you're mainly concerned with trying gnome-shell in which case I would suggest just checking out the wiki article on compiling that. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gnome_Shell

wonder · 2011-03-17 17:12:51

abarilla wrote:

They're aren't fully adequate instructions on installing gnome 3. There's a few posts from last year, but there's missing dependencies.
If you're like me, you're mainly concerned with trying gnome-shell in which case I would suggest just checking out the wiki article on compiling that. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gnome_Shell

that is not the adequate instruction to get gnome 3 in arch. That only explains how to use jhbuild method and is not the arch way.

the arch way is: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gnome_3

abarilla · 2011-03-17 18:04:25

wonder wrote:

that is not the adequate instruction to get gnome 3 in arch. That only explains how to use jhbuild method and is not the arch way.
the arch way is: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gnome_3

Ignore my post and follow these instructions instead. They weren't there when I looked yesterday. The bonobo command is what I was missing I think from the old instructions.

abarilla · 2011-03-17 20:11:20

One caveat I thought of, the non-arch way that I first mentioned does have no effect on the rest of your system. My thoughts are that it depends on your goals:

1) Just play around with gnome shell - use the gnome shell wiki article
2) Test gnome3 and gnome shell for the good of the community - use the gnome3 wiki article

darkbeanies · 2011-03-18 01:19:40

Getting a few dependency problems with the arch way here:

warning: gnome-icon-theme-symbolic will be installed before its gnome-icon-theme dependency
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) gnome-themes-standard and gnome-themes are in conflict

Edit -oh, hang on, this may be idiocy on my part...

Edit2...hmm, maybe not my fault.

Last edited by darkbeanies (2011-03-18 01:26:36)

abarilla · 2011-03-18 04:26:12

You can try uninstalling gnome-themes. It's not required for gnome3. I didn't get that message because I happened to have a fairly fresh install I installed gnome-desktop, not gnome, which doesn't include this package.

I'm guessing there's a bug in the gnome-themes-standard package that should specify that it should replace gnome-themes.

darkbeanies · 2011-03-18 09:17:31

Pretty sure i didn't have any gnome-themes installed.

Trying

pacman -S gnome-desktop gnome-shell

Is that pretty close to the whole gnome thing?

wonder · 2011-03-18 09:28:58

darkbeanies wrote:

Pretty sure i didn't have any gnome-themes installed.
Trying
pacman -S gnome-desktop gnome-shell
Is that pretty close to the whole gnome thing?

no.

pacman -S gnome --ignore gnome-themes

does that work?

darkbeanies · 2011-03-18 09:39:13

Okay, final version:

pacman -S gnome --ignore gnome-themes

add

exec dbus-launch ck-launch-session gnome-session

to .xinitrc

Wow. it works! Seems a lot faster than the last time I tried it. Thanks arch community!

Last edited by darkbeanies (2011-03-18 09:49:51)

cngn · 2011-03-18 15:37:35

pacman -S gnome-unstable/gnome worked for me (and I have the repo at the top in pacman.conf)

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natostanco · 2011-04-06 17:33:35

cngn wrote:

pacman -S gnome-unstable/gnome worked for me (and I have the repo at the top in pacman.conf)

tried this, when i try to log in in gnome it says
Failed to load session "gnome"

what is this?

edit: nvm missing gnome-shell sorry.

Last edited by natostanco (2011-04-06 17:39:04)

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