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Carlwill

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New Install = Gnome 2.22

I just installed Arch for the 1st time and got Gnome / GDM installed however its super old. I was wondering how difficult it is to get the latest version of Gnome installed on my system?

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skottish

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Re: New Install = Gnome 2.22

Parts of 2.24 are in testing.

Carlwill

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Re: New Install = Gnome 2.22

Not sure what 'parts' means. I assume I just google how to enable "testing" on my system and then use 'pacman' to upgrade my gnome/gdm packages, right?

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skottish

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Re: New Install = Gnome 2.22

Not sure what 'parts' means. I assume I just google how to enable "testing" on my system and then use 'pacman' to upgrade my gnome/gdm packages, right?

If I remember correctly, there are something like 38 packages that needed to be upgraded. JGC is working on getting them all to the point where they don't break other things. So, you can enable testing and upgrade what's there. I upgraded the few Gnome based packages I have on my system and haven't encountered any problems, but I'm not using a whole lot of libraries.

Carlwill

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Re: New Install = Gnome 2.22

Can I do the ftp/http install directly from testing so I download and install the latest available packages from the start? Is that possible?

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skottish

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Re: New Install = Gnome 2.22

Can I do the ftp/http install directly from testing so I download and install the latest available packages from the start? Is that possible?

Yes, as long as you have testing enabled you can. There are a lot of people here that do that all of the time. There's a slightly higher risk of things breaking though. Honestly, I can't tell you what the risks are because I only upgrade from testing for specific applications, and almost never for system level stuff.

phisphere

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Re: New Install = Gnome 2.22

carlwill, you can uncomment the testing repo in /etc/packman.conf. then run pacman -Sy (not -Syu) and install gnome. after than you can comment out testing repo.

neowolf

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Re: New Install = Gnome 2.22

I just installed Arch for the 1st time and got Gnome / GDM installed however its super old. I was wondering how difficult it is to get the latest version of Gnome installed on my system?

6 months is super old? A version that came out quite recently and most distros won't have until later this month is, again, super old? As said, it's in testing already and it's due out soon. Releasing an entire DE without taking any time to make sure nothing breaks isn't always as great as you seem to think it is.

Carlwill

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Re: New Install = Gnome 2.22

OK - I use Debian "Testing" all the time which is stuff before it becomes stable and never ever had an issue. I don't know if Debian Testing and Arch Testing are equivalent but I will see so...

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skottish

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Re: New Install = Gnome 2.22

OK - I use Debian "Testing" all the time which is stuff before it becomes stable and never ever had an issue. I don't know if Debian Testing and Arch Testing are equivalent but I will see so...

Cool. Good luck with this and welcome to the forums.

Rasi

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Re: New Install = Gnome 2.22

OK - I use Debian "Testing" all the time which is stuff before it becomes stable and never ever had an issue. I don't know if Debian Testing and Arch Testing are equivalent but I will see so...

Its not... arch's core and extra repos is what testing is for debian...
but imagine.. even debian testing packages are tested BEFORE being put into repositories...

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Carlwill

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Re: New Install = Gnome 2.22

Thanks all!

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meandean

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Re: New Install = Gnome 2.22

I don't know if Debian Testing and Arch Testing are equivalent but I will see so...

from what I understand....which may be wrong of course

debian unstable == arch testing

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azleifel

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Re: New Install = Gnome 2.22

I just checked and lenny and sid currently have gnome 2.22.3 (http://packages.debian.org/search?searc … ords=gnome).

Last edited by azleifel (2008-10-08 20:17:07)