Gnome3.2

JR41 · n00b Joined: 16 Mar 2012 Posts: 6

Hi, I'm new to Gentoo (I'm moving from Fedora).

Just finshed my first install on X86_64, Kernel 3.2.1. I have installed Gnome 2.3 (emerge gnome), however I wish to install Gnome3, and could not find a way to emerge/migrate the the Gnome2 desktop to Gnome3.

Any help will be appreciated?

Thank you

jtshs256 · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2011 Posts: 17

First edit your make.conf:

franzf · Advocate Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 4565

JR41 · n00b Joined: 16 Mar 2012 Posts: 6

Thank you!

However why is the ~amd64 Keyword dangerous?

Splink · Apprentice Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 295

the ~ marks packages that are not in mainstream release and are considered beta or still to be in testing or pre-production. So there may be a few packages in there which have not quite completed full testing or may have a few bugs still.

It is your own risk if you want to do that really - although many people do to get access to the latest things within the portage tree. There may be issues with other packages on the system which rely on other versions of gnome, and not supported on 3.2 on an ~amd64 keyword platform.

Best thing to do is if you have enough time, and the knowledge to fix your system is to just try it and see if it works.

Be aware that emerge -uaDv world updates may break quite a few things and you may need to install revdep-rebuild to sort out some of your backwards compatible application packages missing some dependencies.
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It said "Requires Windows XP or better"
So I installed gentoo.

JR41 · n00b Joined: 16 Mar 2012 Posts: 6

Thank You! Now a few things make more sense!

On choosing my desktop environment, I "emerge gnome" , however I prefere Gnome3,2 after using it for a year on Fedora, 15&16.

Will there become an "emerge Gnome3" (4exmpl), At some later stage?

franzf · Advocate Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 4565

JR41 · n00b Joined: 16 Mar 2012 Posts: 6

Thank You!

Splink · Apprentice Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 295

Usage of accept_keywords is a good best practice and I suggest using this.

As for emerging gnome - if you just emerge gnome and you have set the keywords right then you will just pull in the latest one which is gnome-3.2.1 in my ports tree at the moment.

The best thing to do is read the masking documentation and then set your keywords for different packages in these locations, instead of cluttering up and complicating your make.conf.

make.conf is good for thing like alsa, and cups, and opengl etc because you have all of the hardware supported for that. But some applications have large package use options like mysql which could have a big big effect on your system if you have a shared mysql setup where some applications rely on certain versions of mysql.

Particularly coming from gnome 2 to version 3 where compiz was concerned, compiz has been left behind now and not being developed for 3, but it was part of my USE flags on make.conf, which led to some confusion around compiling some compiz settings in parts of gnome which were not supported in v3.

Just have a read and if there is anything you dont quite understand then im sure that some of us will help you out.
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It said "Requires Windows XP or better"
So I installed gentoo.