Hi, all!

I've been wanting to update my Gnome desktop and so I figured I would go
the route of least resistance and download the whole [...]/gnome
directory from a mirror, and then go upgradepkg *.tgz and letting the
utility handle the rest.

Upon doing that, the new Gnome started, but it couldn't find anything in
a way of graphics: neither the splash screen, nor any icons. It
complained about a problem with pixbuf, I believe. I don't have debug
info readily available, because Gnome is my primary desktop and at that
point I was in a somewhat mission critical situation and therefore I
just put the slack 9.1 CD in and reverse-upgraded everything.

Any ideas?

PM

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 16:17:12 +0100,
PianoMan <PianoMan@piano.man.com> wrote:
>
> I've been wanting to update my Gnome desktop and so I figured I would go
> the route of least resistance and download the whole [...]/gnome
> directory from a mirror, and then go upgradepkg *.tgz and letting the
> utility handle the rest.

It might be worth typing 'upgradepkg --install-new *.tgz' here instead.

> Upon doing that, the new Gnome started, but it couldn't find anything in
> a way of graphics: neither the splash screen, nor any icons. It
> complained about a problem with pixbuf, I believe.

Perhaps you needed the gdk-pixbuf package in l/. It might be worth
dowloading the l/ disk series and upgradepkg-ing that too.

> I don't have debug
> info readily available, because Gnome is my primary desktop and at that
> point I was in a somewhat mission critical situation

I use gnome primarily these days, but find it useful to keep a
lightweight WM like fluxbox around for these situations.


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