On 05/26/2011 07:04 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Thu, May 26 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >>> >>> Thank you. Some forum posts suggest that upgrading to gnome3 from >>> gnome2 is difficult. Did you >>> >>> 1. Upgrade from 2.32.1 >>> 2. Unmerge 2.32.1 then merge 3 >>> 3. Do a fresh install of gentoo w/o gnome and then install gnome3 >>> 4. Do something else >> >> All of the above? :D >> >> I keyworded and unmasked the necessary packages to make >> =gnome-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.
Have you considered doing all of this experimenting on a virtual machine? VirtualBox is so easy to use now, I will definitely try gnome3 on a VM before "upgrading" on this machine, which is the one I use for real work.
