On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:58:33AM +0000, Scott wrote: | I am setting up a new desk and am ready to throw Debian Woody onto my 4 GB [...] | However, I want GNOME 2 on this machine, and I want to be able to download | the means to do this and burn it to a disk here at work.
Gnome 2 is in sid (aka unstable) on the official repository. | When I go to the GNOME site, it directs me to instructions like | this: | | " For woody, you should use Gustavo Noronha's excellent backport of GNOME 2. | Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list: | | deb http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian woody gnome2 | deb-src http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian woody gnome2 | | Next, just run: | | apt-get update | apt-get install gnome gdm2" Close, but not quite. With a web browser take a look at http://people.debian.org/~kov/debian/dists/woody/gnome2/binary-i386/. Note that there is no package named "gnome". Instead you'll need to specify which packages you want. For example apt-get install gnome-session gnome-panel gnome-terminal gdm2 Dependencies will be taken care of for you. | This won't do it for me, so I downloaded pretty much everything from this | ftp site: | | http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.0/2.0.3/sources/ ^^^^^^^ | Can someone check that link and tell me I can use those files, even if it is | harder? I am very new to Linux and have never used Debian even, but I Sources /can/ be used, but they must be compiled first. If you aren't familiar with software development on unix, then I don't recommend that you try starting out with sources. Instead use the existing packages others have already compiled and tested. Is there a particular reason you want gnome 2 instead of 1.4? If not, then KISS (Keep It Simple) and use gnome 1.4 that comes on the woody cds. HTH, -D -- Who can say, "I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin"? Proverbs 20:9 http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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