From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QPmQu-0007Rg-8X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 27 May 2011 02:05:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 029F81C016; Fri, 27 May 2011 02:04:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.97]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8D021C016 for ; Fri, 27 May 2011 02:04:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4a59b202.dyn.optonline.net [74.89.178.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4R24P3b029231 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:04:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 5D6C97018C; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:04:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Allan Gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3 ?? References: Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 22:04:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: ("Canek =?utf-8?Q?Pel=C3=A1ez_Vald=C3=A9s=22's?= message of "Thu, 26 May 2011 18:43:20 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e5f8e1ebf8f51b4a3bb21f618e69c3f3 On Thu, May 26 2011, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >> Thank you. =C2=A0Some forum posts suggest that upgrading to gnome3 from >> gnome2 is difficult. =C2=A0Did you >> >> 1. =C2=A0Upgrade from 2.32.1 >> 2. =C2=A0Unmerge 2.32.1 then merge 3 >> 3. =C2=A0Do a fresh install of gentoo w/o gnome and then install gnome3 >> 4. =C2=A0Do something else > > All of the above? :D > > I keyworded and unmasked the necessary packages to make > =3Dgnome-base/gnome-3.0.0 emergable; then I upgraded like usual. There > were some problems, but usually solvable by emerge -C the offending > package (and older version, generally). I removed (after backup) > ~/.gconf, ~/.gnome2* ~/.metacity ~/.nautilus and ~/.evolution (I > *think* this was not really necessary, by I wanted to see a "pristine" > GNOME 3). At the end, I emerge --depclean, and then after a couple of > emerge -uDNvp world everything went to normal. I haven't had any > problem since then. > > Oh, at some point I emerge @preserved-rebuild and then again emerge > --depclean. > > It took a couple of days of try/error, and be warned that you should > do this fom a VT, not from X (unless you do it under twm or something > like that). Sounds like I should do it on my spare laptop first. thanks again. allan