[wellylug] Debian and Gnome 2

[David McNab]

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 15:01, Nigel Walters wrote:
> Bret,
> 
> I run debian on sid. I have Gnome 2 working but my main desktop is KDE.
> Gnome 2 seems fine and I would be happy to use it (if KDE did not
> exist). 
> 
> Although I love using sid and having the latest of everything; there
> might be a backport of gnome 2 available for woody ?!
> 
> I dont remember too many issues getting things going.

I've been happily using gnome2 for several months.

However, a recent upgrade of Galeon triggered the installation of
several new libraries and bits and pieces, which are not exactly, um,
stable. Gnome2 is pretty broken on my box now, and I'm running Fluxbox
instead until a fix is forthcoming.

Cheers
David

> Nigel 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 12:02, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Due to tales of woe detailed in another message, and for other, more
> > fundamental reasons, I'm considering switching to Debian.
> > 
> > One app I want to use is gnomemeeting, at a version that will
> > interoperate with NetMeeting (rellies overseas).  That means Gnome 2.
> > 
> > I've done a trial install of Woody, and it seems happy enough on my T21
> > Thinkpad, but it comes with Gnome 1.4.
> > 
> > Is anyone running Debian with Gnome 2?  The web has some instructions,
> > and they don't sound horrendous.  How well does it work?
> > 
> > Thanks for any feedback.
> > 
> > Bret
> > 
> > -- 
> > Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow at alum.mit.edu>
> -- 
> Nigel Walters <lizh at ihug.co.nz>
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Kind regards
David

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