[GUFSC] Updated Gnome2.2 Woody backport instructions

[Ricardo Grützmacher]

http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=992

Though these instructions have been posted elsewhere, it seems that 
there are some instructions floating around the internet that lead 
people down the wrong path. Hopefully these will help.

Add to sources.list one of these:
deb 
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody 
gnome2.2/
deb http://mirror.raw.no/ gnome2.2/

and have ONLY these Official woody lines (using an appropriate mirror):
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

I recommend NOT having any other lines in sources.list. If you have 
other lines, there may be conflicts. You have been warned. :)

Then do:
apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade
apt-get install gnome-core

and optionally:
apt-get install gnome gnome-fifth-toe gdm

The initial 'apt-get -u dist-upgrade' is to upgrade xfree86 to 4.2.1. 
Woody ships with 4.1.0, which is incompatible with the backport, but the 
above sources.list lines contain everything you need.

XFREE86 4.3

This should be considered experimental, but if you are running xfree86 
4.3 on debian woody, you are already doing 'experimental' things 
(xfree86 4.3 hasn't even hit sid yet, or is just about to). That said, 
others have this working and haven't complained to me.

To get xfree86 4.3 and the gnome2.2 backport to work, you MUST have 
these versions of software installed:

fontconfig 2.1
freetype 2.1 (yes, 2.1-- xfree86 4.3 needs it)
libxft2 2.1

I do not supply xfree86 4.3 packages with the gnome2.2 backport, so it 
is up to you to get the above software and xfree86 4.3 installed on your 
system before attempting to install the gnome2.2 backport. Note that sid 
currently has 2.2 versions for fontconfig-- this won't work.

TROUBLESHOOTING

1. you may need to run 'fc-cache -f' as root after install before 
logging in.

2. make sure your locales are set up. This isn't a backport issue, but 
the new gnome makes this show up:

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales

and picking an appropriate locale will fix this right up.

3. People using the nvidia binary only driver should add to the Device 
section of XF86Config-4 'Option "NoRenderAccel" "on"'. Eg:

Section "Device"
Driver "nvidia"
...
Option "NoRenderAccel" "on"
...
EndSection

gtk+2.0 triggers a bug in the hardware accelerated render code in the 
proprietary driver. Nvidia is aware of the problem and is supposedly 
working on a fix.

4. My backport will NOT work with Adrian Bunk's packages. If you have 
them installed, you must remove them (at least xfree86, freetype, 
fontconfig and libxft2-- but maybe more). This is a common problem. In 
general, mixing backports can be a really bad idea. I do not make any 
guarantees on using my gnome2.2 backport with any other backport-- with 
the exception of the semi-official openoffice.org woody backport.

5. Unmet dependencies. If you have the above lines in sources.list, and 
haven't installed any other backports, this should not be a problem. 
However, because a lot of people install multiple backports, unmet 
dependencies can occur. The most likely reason is because of freetype. 
Make sure you have woody freetype (2.0.9), and are using the backported 
versions of fontconfig and libxft2 (exception being if you are using 
XFree86 4.3-- see above). See the debian mailing list archives for a 
technical discussion of this issue. To fix unmet dependency issues, 
uninstall the packages that are preventing the backport from installing.

Please issue packaging bug reports to me (jstrand1 em rochester.rr.com) and 
ask for help on debian-user or debian-gtk-gnome for general questions. I 
track both lists, and so do a lot of other people that can help.

Have fun!

Jamie Strandboge