Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 10:12:11 -0600 (CST) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "a jenisch" <a@jenisch.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome2 -> Gnome3 - no way Message-ID: <63179.128.135.70.2.1420560731.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAPeCvyLiYDETAoQ3C4Cmbn9UcuxOxy3n9y3Jy%2B6rSBCfCL-S_Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPeCvyLiYDETAoQ3C4Cmbn9UcuxOxy3n9y3Jy%2B6rSBCfCL-S_Q@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, January 6, 2015 3:21 am, a jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > In the process of upgrading one of my systems (FreeBSD amd64, > 9.3-STABLE) I came across the update from gnome2 to gnome 3. > The corresponding entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING says > > ---------- < cut here > ---------- > > 20141119: > AFFECTS: users of x11/gnome2, graphics/clutter and lang/vala > ... > Make a list of the installed ports: > # pkg info > ~/installed-ports-list > > Delete the old and conflicting packages: > # pkg delete clutter gnome-utils gnome-panel gnome-keyring vala-vapigen > \ > guile gcalctool gnome-media libgnomekbd gnome-themes at-spi > # pkg delete gnome-screensaver gnome-applets bug-buddy \ > evolution-exchange evolution-webcal gnome-system-tools \ > seahorse-plugins gnome-control-center > For package users the following lines will be enough: > # pkg upgrade > # pkg install gnome3 > > For ports users should do the following: > # portmaster -a > # portmaster x11/gnome3 > > ---------- < cut here > ---------- > > Up to and including the "pkg delete" entries everything went OK. > > But when I tried to do a "pkg install gnome3" I only got > > # pkg install gnome3 > Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... > FreeBSD repository is up-to-date. > All repositories are up-to-date. > pkg: No packages available to install matching 'gnome3' have been > found in the repositories > # > > The only gnome3-related thing that seems to be available as package > seems to be "gnome3-lite" which clearly is not the full gnome3. > > Even though I normally use portupgrade for upgrading my ports I tried > to run the two portmaster commands given in "UPDATING" but again this > didn't work. > > Just out of curiosity I went and installed a fresh 10.1 System and > tried to do a "pkg install gnome3" there - again gnome3 couldn't be > found as a package; so this seems to be a more general issue. > > > > So here are my questions: > > o) Has anybody else out there experienced similar issues in upgrading > from gnome2 to gnome3? > > o) How can I get gnome3 on my system again? > > o) AFAIK gnome3 is a supported desktop environment under FreeBSD (?). > Are there, besides KDE which I don't like for personal reasons, any > reasonable alternatives providing similar features like Gnome? > > Thanks much in advance for your help, > -ewald On a side note (as I do not know if at all it is applicable to you): I for one just switched away from Gnome 3: in a course of upgrade from FreeBSD 10.0 to 10.1 I was made to "step up" from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 (successfully in my case - on technical side of it). And after a couple of weeks of frustration of just trying to do what I usually do on my workstation I decided to give up on Gnome. If you are happy with Gnome 3, just junk this my e-mail. Anyway, I asked on this list an advice "from a person not ready to join ipad generation ;-)" what would be decent replacement of Gnome 3. Thanks to everybody for all your advices and suggestions!! I ended up switching from Gnome 3 to mate. I just added mate, leaving everything else as it was (i.e. starting gdm, etc.), and at X login screen I can choose mate. And I work on my workstation happily ever since. As (someone mentioned on this thread) mate is a fork of Gnome. Other options mentioned in advises were (and I tried them too, and each of them fills the bill, mate was just something I was most comfortable with): xfce fvwm i3 lxde KDE (which I disregarded; basically it is the new way of user interaction in Gnome 3 that I can not stand mostly; and KDE 4 is pretty much alike) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?63179.128.135.70.2.1420560731.squirrel>