Re: True Gnome2 workaround

[Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>]

At Wed, 20 Nov 2002 01:04:55 +0900,
Fumitoshi UKAI wrote:

> > Until we can solve this bonobo, controcenter issue I have a failty easy
> > way to get gnome2 back running.
> 
> Alternative way
> 
> If you already upgraded bonobo packages, add the followings to 
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
>  deb http://snapshot.apt.jp/archive pool bonobo-activation libbonoboui

Ah, snapshot.apt.jp is the same as snapshot.debian.net.

> Then run as follows:
> 
>  # apt-get update
>  
>  # apt-get install bonobo-activation=1.0.3-2.2 \
> 		libbonobo-activation4=1.0.3-2.2 \
> 		libbonoboui2-0=2.0.3-1 \
> 		libbonoboui2-common=2.0.3-1
> 
> So, you'll get safe bonobo packages again. Of course you should install
> -dev packages as well if needed.
> Note the version number can be found by using apt-cache show <package>
> after you did apt-get update.
> 
> Once you installed, you can remove above apt line from /etc/apt/sources.list.
> 
> if you get safe bonobo packages back or if you didn't yet ugpraded 
> bonobo packages, just hold it
>    # echo bonobo-activation hold | dpkg --set-selections
>    # echo libbonobo-activation4 hold | dpkg --set-selections
>    # echo libbonobo-activation-dev hold | dpkg --set-selections
>    # echo libbonoboui2-0 hold | dpkg --set-selections
>    # echo libbonoboui2-common hold | dpkg --set-selections
>    # echo libbonoboui2-dev hold | dpkg --set-selections
> 
> So, apt-get won't upgrade these packages until you reset hold.

Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI