On Thu, May 26 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> >> Thank you. Some forum posts suggest that upgrading to gnome3 from >> gnome2 is difficult. Did you >> >> 1. Upgrade from 2.32.1 >> 2. Unmerge 2.32.1 then merge 3 >> 3. Do a fresh install of gentoo w/o gnome and then install gnome3 >> 4. Do something else > > All of the above? :D > > I keyworded and unmasked the necessary packages to make > =gnome-base/gnome-3.0.0 emergable; then I upgraded like usual. There > were some problems, but usually solvable by emerge -C the offending > package (and older version, generally). I removed (after backup) > ~/.gconf, ~/.gnome2* ~/.metacity ~/.nautilus and ~/.evolution (I > *think* this was not really necessary, by I wanted to see a "pristine" > GNOME 3). At the end, I emerge --depclean, and then after a couple of > emerge -uDNvp world everything went to normal. I haven't had any > problem since then. > > Oh, at some point I emerge @preserved-rebuild and then again emerge > --depclean. > > It took a couple of days of try/error, and be warned that you should > do this fom a VT, not from X (unless you do it under twm or something > like that).
Sounds like I should do it on my spare laptop first. thanks again. allan
