Installing Gnome
UNDER SID:
The current metapackage for installing a good set of Gnome tools is gnome-desktop-environment. So, from the command line, run
-# aptitude install gnome-desktop-environment
You can also do
-# aptitude install gnome
but this will install additional software (gnome-office, evolution) that you may not want.
UNDER SARGE:
Gnome is currently broken. The gnome-core package is still the old 1.4 version, but the other components are the newer 2.4. Install at your own risk!
Progress report (Colin Watson, 13 Jan 2004):
In order to get the new metapackages into testing, we need:
builds of epiphany-browser on m68k and sparc (m68k in incoming)
galeon has been re-uploaded to fix some [http://bugs.debian.org/225193 build problems]; waiting for builds now
build of sound-juicer on m68k
build of libgda2 on m68k
build of libgnomedb on s390
fixes for [http://bugs.debian.org/libxslt1.1 upgrade bugs] in libxslt
builds of planner on hppa and s390 (hppa in incoming)
This is looking pretty good, and the meta-gnome2 maintainer is willing to drop some of its dependencies once the last of the real essentials are ready. I'd estimate two weeks provided that galeon and libxslt are fixed soon.
Only one of epiphany-browser and galeon is needed.
UNDER WOODY:
No metapackage exists. Again, run
-# aptitude install gnome-core gnome-panel gnome-control-center gnome-session gnome-sawfish
(12jan2004) M. Kirchhoff