Use flags for gnome shell 3.6.x?

caaarlos · Apprentice Joined: 27 Apr 2012 Posts: 155

How can edit my use flags to use gnome shell 3.6.x?
Is there any tutorial? I don't find ;/

fturco · Veteran Joined: 08 Dec 2010 Posts: 1181 Location: Italy

It's not really clear what you want. Do you want to install GNOME 3.6? There's an overlay for that.

caaarlos · Apprentice Joined: 27 Apr 2012 Posts: 155

Yes, I want to install Gnome 3.6 ou Gnome 3.x. Sorry but I don't know the meaning of overlay.

fturco · Veteran Joined: 08 Dec 2010 Posts: 1181 Location: Italy

GNOME 3.4 is in Portage but it's still marked as testing (~amd64 and ~x86). It's what I'm using now, and I had no major problems with it. If you want to use it and you are running a stable system then you have to unmask it by adding entries in /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords.

GNOME 3.6 is not yet in Portage, but there's an overlay for it (unsurprisingly called "gnome"). If you don't know what overlays are, then you should read this guide. I tried installing GNOME 3.6 myself, but I had to unmask a lot of packages by adding entries in package.unmask. This is harder than just using GNOME 3.4, but it's still possible if you really want it.

lmarcini · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 10:03 pm Post subject:

Gnome 3.6, from "gnome" overlay, works very well. You only have to do symbolic links in your /etc/portage/package{use,mask,unmask,keyword} directories from "use" section in the overlay (aka /var/lib/layman/gnome/status/portage-configs/...)...

Enjoy!

Laurent.
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caaarlos · Apprentice Joined: 27 Apr 2012 Posts: 155

Thanks fturco now i know what is overlay. lmarcini can you explain or show me one tutorial of how to use gnome 3.6?
thanks for the ensors!

lmarcini · Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 5:57 am Post subject:

Forget the overlay : Gnome 3.6 is in portage now !
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caaarlos · Apprentice Joined: 27 Apr 2012 Posts: 155

ohh it's great! Thx =D