Quote Originally Posted by rmdnet
Hi all,

I have Knoppix 3.2 installed in my HDD. It's incredible, the best I've known. But I am trying to install GNOME 2.2 and I can't.

Any ideas?

Thanks

RM
Well the bad news is that I don't think it is possible to do a full install right now. I've been trying to do so and have been running into problems. First off I added the following repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors...ckports/woody/ gnome2.2/
deb http://mirror.raw.no/ gnome2.2/

(I found them through a link at debianplanet.org though they are also listed at apt-get.org)

Each time I tried to do an apt-get install gnome I got all kinds of dependency errors. At one point I saw that in order to install Gnome 2.2 I'd have to remove KDE 3.1. That is not really an option for me now.

Curious as to what the problem was I did a little more fideling with my system and found that the problem lies with libfam. If you put "libfam0 gnome kde" (without the quotes) into google and look for the debian links you will see some helpful posts from Debian mailing lists. As one post quips:

GNOME 2 uses the g++ 3.2 version (libfam0c102) while KDE2 uses (and needs to continue using) the g++ 2.95 version (libfam0), and the two conflict.
(The same is true of KDE 3.x btw)

There is some good news however. Though I have been unable to get Gnome installed per se I was able to get enough GTK 2 libs installed to upgrade several applications (And being more KDE centric, this is all I really wanted to do anyway.)

Here's what I did.

First I made a backup of my sources.list by saving /etc/apt/sources.list as /etc/apt/sources.list.old.

Next I commented out everything except the Gnome 2 sources (listed above). I'm not absolutely sure this step is necessary, but it worked for me.

Then I did an apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrade. That's when the necessary GTK2 stuff was downloaded. I also saw that Bluefish was updated. I was really happy that I could now upgrade Gnucash to it's current version.

Not all Gnome apps will upgrade. Gnomemeeting won't upgrade and for me that's a real downer.

Of course when you get finished with everything you want to be sure to delete /etc/apt/sources.list and rename /etc/apt/sources.list.old to be /etc/apt/sources.list

Does any one else have any ideas on how to get around this problem. Feel free to let me know if there is a smarter way to do things.

Hopefully this problem should be remedied soon, but I have no idea what sort of time line we are looking at.

One last thing. I noticed that in one of the links that turned up in my google search one guy said this.

My solution was to place a hold on the ibgnomevfs2* packages, which, on my systems, are the only ones for which an upgrade depends on libfam0c102.
I'm not sure how to do this. Anyone else know the details?