How to install gnome 2.6

downed · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:30 am Post subject: How to install gnome 2.6

I'm trying to install gnome 2.6 I copied all the gnome 2.6 from package.mask into /usr/portage/package.unmask but when I ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge gnome it wants to install gnome 2.4 still do I have to emerge the ebuild directly ala emerge 2.6rc5.ebuild??

minhtang · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 76

Well, the problem is that you copied into the wrong file.
It should be /etc/portage/package.unmask not /usr/portage/package.unmask.

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downed · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:38 am Post subject:

hrm just emerge sync'd 2.6.ebuild is now in portage still ~x86 however

downed · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:42 am Post subject:

now i get this after adding gnome to package.keywords

Calculating dependencies
!!! Problem in gnome-base/libgtop-2.5.2 dependencies.
!!! "Specific key requires an operator (gnome-base/libgtop-2.5.2) (try adding an '=')"

downed · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:45 am Post subject:

nm got it working

the_user · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 4:04 pm Post subject:

Previously I had installed the gnome-2.6_r5.ebuild with no hassles (after masking out the appropriate entries in package.mask).

After this I had problems with: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -uv gnome-2.6. Using the absolute path to the ebuild seemed to do the trick:

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -uv /usr/portage/gnome-base/gnome/gnome-2.6.ebuild.

Cheers!

trapperjohn · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 6:28 pm Post subject:

Directly giving portage an ebuild file is a really dirty install...

You shouldn't touch package.mask (it will be overwritten the next sync). Just cut&paste the needed entries to /etc/portage/package.unmask .

Works for me ...

Painkiller · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 6:54 pm Post subject:

ok guys i want to join the party of gnome 2.6

so i made a emerge sync and later and emerge -p gnome i received this error

Vann · Guru Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 357

Those packages are blocking. Uninstall gnome-vfs-extras, gtk-engines-thinice, and acme then run

Painkiller · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:03 pm Post subject:

emerging now..Thanx vann
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