ATTENTION all Gnome Users

[Alex Hunsaker]

Sounds good :)

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 02:34, Nick Hudson wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> 	As some of you may or maynot have heard today was the release of Gnome
> 2.6.0 Desktop.  With the new version of Gnome the Lunar Dev team has
> decited to move the Gnome installation from /opt/lunar/gnome/2.4 back
> to /usr.  This will make updates easier in the future and it will stop
> some compile and run issues that I have seen in the past with missing
> libraries or missing pkconfig files or binding problems like with the
> gnome-python module.  
> 
> 	With this update we will have to do one thing that is a bit drastic but
> it is the best way I have found to update things without causing any
> build problems.  When your 1st module is updated it will completly
> remove your /opt/lunar/gnome/2.4 directory from your file system.  Don't
> fret, all of the programs will and should be reinstalled back into
> the /usr directory once the updates have completed.  If and when
> something didnt work correctly all that should be done to correct the
> problem is a simple "lin --fix".  I do not plan on updating to Gnome 2.6
> for a good week or so.  So if you have any opinions, question,
> suggestions, please make them here and now before its to late.  This
> should go pretty painless only clevet that I see is that you will
> probobly have to shut down X till the updates finish before you can do
> anything.  If you leave X up while updating Gnome, things might stop
> working and your X server might crash, sop be forwarned on that.  
> 
> 	Like I said before please if you have any question, comments, or
> suggestions please speak up now.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nick Hudson
> 
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