On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 17:12, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear Ed: > > I don't use Debian. I use the Debian-based Xandros Linux. But I would advise > you very strongly to read some of the reviews of Gnome 2.6. They are > horrendous. Just look for them at LinuxToday. The consensus is that if you > really want Gnome 2.6, you should wait till your distro has upgraded to it. > Otherwise, you'll be facing one hell of a nightmare both installing and > running it.
The above is not true at all. I'm running Gnome 2.6 right now. It's very nice, and perfectly stable. Add the following to the file /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib [Note: instead of the download URL above, select a suitable mirror for your location] then as the root user type: apt-get update apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment Note that pointing apt at "unstable" can have nasty side-effects. You really should run a system backup before doing this, just in case. However I can say that I updated about 1 hour ago and everything is fine. I typically comment out the "unstable" line above when I'm happy with my system, so that I don't download any more "unstable" packages. There is probably a better way to manage this, such as "pinning" etc. Some day I hope to have time to learn the finer details of apt. Note; I am running x86 not PPC. I don't expect that to make any difference, though. Regards, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
