I read somewhere that you cannot have Gnome 2 and Gnome 3 installed on the same system at the same time. Is this true?
On 06/23/2011 09:36 AM, Scott Swinyard wrote:
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> I read somewhere that you cannot have Gnome 2 and Gnome 3 installed on
> the same system at the same time. Is this true?
i’d guess so, i have not tried it. have you?
i say probably true because if i were to try it, i would add a new
user for the new version, and never have the chance of conflicting
/home configs…
on the other hand i did try KDE3 and KDE4 on the same system, with the
same single user…
but, where did you read that?
why not ask there the reason that was said?
or ask in a gnome forum, maybe http://gnomesupport.org/forums/
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23 June: Sunrise 4:36 AM, Sunset 10:03 PM
Hi.
Denver is totally right, it’d be a good idea to go and ask in the Gnome forum.
It IS possible, AFAIK, to run both Gnome 2 and Gnome 3 as seperate sessions on the same machine, it’s not possible to do under OpenSUSE 11.4 using the repos as this updates Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 and not a seperate install. However, I believe that it is possible to have both installed on any distro if you build Gnome 3 from source using their JHbuild service, which you can read more of here JHBuild Manual
As Denver suggests, it would be best to create a new user, to prevent the two desktops ‘fighting’ over /home configs.
Yours,
Tom
Thanks for the replies. They make sense to me.
I don’t remember where I read that. I thought it was probably here. I hope that eventually they get it all set up so that one can use the repos to install both without a lot of extra work to make it a viable system.
I do have both Kde 3 and 4 running in here in 11.4 too and both seem to work great. I didn’t have to do anything special.