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evoweiss
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 Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 10:41 pm Post subject: Weird gnome problems... |
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Hi all,
I want to try running gnome to see how I like it compared to KDE. A short while ago the copy I had running upgraded itself to 2.6, but the icons for various desktop items have all become generic and look the same, i.e., like a stack of papers or something.
I then noticed that when I do a emerge -p world I get the following message:
*** Package in world file is not installed: gnome-base/gnome
Even though that's definitely not true.
Even stranger, when I do a emerge -p gnome the list of stuff includes several new files and stuff that I thought had been installed when I upgrade to 2.6.0.
In short, I am beginning to suspect that the gnome that is installed is some weird 2.4/2.6 hybrid and that's why I don't have any icons, etc. and just a very generic look.
Does anybody have any idea how I could clean up this problem and get gnome working properly?
Thanks,
Alex |
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ravingsanity
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| Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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Shot in the dark, but maybe try:
That should upgrade all bits of gnome that haven't been upgraded as well as their dependencies. |
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evoweiss
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| ravingsanity wrote: | Shot in the dark, but maybe try:
That should upgrade all bits of gnome that haven't been upgraded as well as their dependencies. |
Hmmmm... well, I would try it, but it wants to install all sorts of new stuff as well including mozilla which I don't necessarily want (just used to konqueror).
Any reason why mozilla is needed?
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ravingsanity
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| evoweiss wrote: | | ravingsanity wrote: | Shot in the dark, but maybe try:
That should upgrade all bits of gnome that haven't been upgraded as well as their dependencies. |
Hmmmm... well, I would try it, but it wants to install all sorts of new stuff as well including mozilla which I don't necessarily want (just used to konqueror).
Any reason why mozilla is needed?
Alex |
Yes, Mozilla is needed in order to build Epiphany, Gnome's web browser (I have *no* idea why they didn't just make a mozilla-headers port to take care of that, but I digress). Also, if you originally installed Gnome from packages, then yes you will see a lot of new packages that need to be installed in order to build Gnome from the ground up. Mozilla's probably the worst dependency of them all, it taking the longest to build, IIRC. |
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