apt-get: fix deps after a dist-upgrade with ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

[NoOp]

On 08/28/2011 12:09 PM, Daniele Guerrieri wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've tried to install gnome3 in the following way:
> 1)add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
> 2)apt-get update
> 3)apt-get upgrade
> 4)apt-get dist-upgrade # (Is this wrong?)

No. But...
https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3
<quote>
This package contains packages from GNOME3 and their dependencies so
they can be used in Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty). This PPA is EXPERIMENTAL and
MAY BREAK YOUR SYSTEM. There is no downgrade process.
</quote>

That also lists all the packages installed. You could put the ones that
you have installed (minus the gnome3 ones) into gedit and use that to do
one large $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall <package1> <package2> for
the packages you currently have installed. But not sure if that will fix
everything, but certainly worth a try.

> 
> It didn't work well. So i tried to remove it, with
> #$ ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3


$ sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

> 
> I hoped to rescue the situation as it were before adding gnome3 ppa, but
> ppa-purge didn't work too: i had to repeat add-apt-repo for gnome3 and
> repeat ppa-purge gnome3, after many many apt-get install -f and apt-get
> update, and a lot of help from aptitude (examine and '!').
> 
> I also had to remove some pkgs by hand to resolve conflicts between the new
> .3 version and the old 2.32 which i was trying to reinstall (automagically
> with ppa-purge, which didn't work).
> 
> To obtain a working GNOME 2.32 environment, therefore i had to install
> several gnome packages by hand, for example banshee, totem, evince and also
> gnome-panel! why an "important" pkg such as gnome-panel hasn't been
> installed as a dep?

gnome-panel isn't installed by default in natty.

> 
> Is there an option to fix all "important" deps, which isn't apt-get -f ? or
> a meta package which holds all GNOME packages (maybe
> gnome-desktop-environment)?
> How can i revert a wrong dist-upgrade?

You could try an in-place reinstall; meaning you reinstall but _don't_
allow the install to format. That will leave your /home and /opt folders
intact.

> 
> Another thing that i cannot understand: why has the boot splash image
> changed? now i have a blue debian img.. where is the ubuntu splash image,
> maybe in grub2-splashimages?
> 
> Thank you!
> Daniele
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