On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 14:51, Jeffrey Baker wrote: > I tried to update my wife's powerbook running Debian > unstable to gnome2 today, but it did not work at all. I > installed everything with "apt-get -t experimental install > gnome2".
You should use just "gnome" instead of "gnome2" now. > 1) gnome-settings-daemon is not installed. This was > provided by gnome-control-center2, but is not in > gnome-control-center>=2. This file is required. Like Michel said, it should be in the package. I have it here. > 2) gnome vfs was lacking some modules. I noticed vfolder > was missing, but there may be others. It appears that the > gnome-vfs build/libtool problems are not yet fixed. Yes, this is Debian bug #160088: http://bugs.debian.org/160088 and upstream bug #86739: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86739 What we need is either for Takuo to run libtoolize --force in the debian/rules of gnome-vfs2, or for upstream to update their libtool. > 3) There was nothing in the GNOME menu. Probably due to > above? Yep. > 4) There was nothing on the desktop. See above. Probably. > 5) The default screen font appears to be Courier. That's a > terrible default, and of course I couldn't change it because > I had no control panels. Just run 'gnome-font-properties', say from the Actions->Run dialog. > 6) I had the annoying 30-second delay when starting the WM, > which I don't have, but have had, with gnome 1.4. See the other thread about this; I get this too (although it's more like 20 seconds for me). I haven't tried any of the proposed solutions yet though.
