Re: Installing specific versions of GNOME (Arch?)

[Amy <mathematical coffee gmail com>]

Hi all,

Well, downgrading my 3.8 VM to 3.6 didn't work (downgrading the `gnome-shell` package suspiciously only downgraded that package and nothing else; I had hoped it would hunt down all the dependencies and downgrade them appropriately too, but it didn't); now when I boot I get various errors about missing libraries to do with 3.4. Not too surprising.

Also, since Arch does rolling releases it appears I can't tell pacman to upgrade the gnome-shell package by just one or two steps instead of the whole way.

Clemens.......because that would make way too much sense, obviously. (d'oh!) I prefer Arch and I notice they still have a snapshot from a few months ago available (3.10 shouldn't have been on it yet), so I can try that (though since gnome-shell does not ship with Arch I suspect I will get the same problem that when I install it, it will update it to 3.10 automatically). Failing that, I'll just grab Fedora or Mageia.

thanks all,

Amy

On 26 October 2013 01:40, Yaa101 <yaa101 xs4all nl> wrote:

Hi Amy,

Dunno about Arch, but Mageia 3 ships with Gnome Shell 3.6
Mageia will skip 3.8 and will ship 3.10 with Mageia 4.

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On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:17:35 +1000
Amy <mathematical coffee gmail com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Some notes:
>
> * I would rather take my GNOME 3.4 snapshot and upgrade it to 3.6,
> rather than taking my 3.8 snapshot and downgrading to 3.6 (since the
> [Downgrading Packages][0] page on the Arch wiki says not to downgrade
> packages if possible).
> * I will certainly add gnome and gnome-extra to IgnoreGroup on all my
> VMs to freeze the versions as they are -- thanks! However I can't do
> this until I have a 3.6 VM.
>
> I guess it doesn't matter if I mess around with the downgrading
> though, because I can just take lots of snapshots to restore to :)
>
> I will play with a few methods (I think I need to keep searching the
> Arch wiki for ways to upgrade to a specific version rather than
> downgrade to a specific version, but failing that I'll downgrade from
> 3.8) and report back.
>
> cheers
> Amy
>
> [0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrading_Packages
>
>
> On 25 October 2013 17:00, Joni Kurunsaari <joni kurunsaari kapsi fi>
> wrote:
>
> >  Hi Amy,
> >
> > I would try add package groups gnome and gnome-extra to IgnoreGroup
> > line which can be found from pacman config file /etc/pacman.conf.
> > Also you should add other gnome version dependent packages to
> > IgnorePkg line. I have not tried this by myself, so please take
> > snapshot or backup before trying upgrade with ignore options.
> >
> > More info on Arch Linux wiki:
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman#Skip_package_group_from_being_upgraded
> >
> > Maybe someone else can confirm that this is right way to do this?
> >
> > -Joni
> >
> > 10/25/13 08:16:54, Amy <mathematical coffee gmail com>:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've just upgraded my machine to Ubuntu 13.10 and I now realise
> > that I have no machine with GNOME 3.6 on it for playing around with
> > stuff.
> >
> > I have a VM each with ArchLinux: GNOME 3.2, 3.4 and 3.8, but none
> > with 3.6 (was using my main laptop for it).
> >
> > Perhaps this is more of an Arch question, but is there any way I
> > can grab (say) the 3.4 VM and 'pacman -Syu' to upgrade it, *but*
> > get it to stop at GNOME 3.6 instead of overshooting to 3.10 (or
> > 3.8, whatever is the latest version in the repos)? (Previously
> > whenever a new GNOME version is released, I grab my latest VM,
> > clone it, and 'pacman -Syu' it to get it to the new version, giving
> > me a VM with that version).
> >
> > cheers,
> > Amy
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> >
> >

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