Upgrading GNOME

**exploder** · 10-17-2005

How to find out the version number of my GNOME desktop environment?
What is the command for that at the console? And also if i wish to upgrade it to latest GNOME version what is the command for that as well?

I am using Debain Sarge 3.1. I have tried typing in :
>apt-get upgrade gdm
to update from my DVD-ROM, this is what i get:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

**borromini** · 10-17-2005

GDM is only the gnome desktop manager (the graphical login manager).

**exploder** · 10-17-2005

I have tried >apt-get upgrade gnome-desktop-environment
I get the same thing:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

**d38dm8nw81k1ng** · 10-17-2005

that means you have the newest version of gnome, silly. if you don't that means that it could be searching through the install CDs, or the hdd. i don't know how to change it though. i had the same problem on my last debian install, and setting aptitude to search FTP didn't work

you can try it and see i you have any joy

**psic** · 10-17-2005

Upgrading from the CD you installed from won't do anything, as these are the versions which you already have. Also, it can take a while for some programs to be updated in Debian, especially with the stable branch.

To edit the servers which you install from (and upgrade from), just open up /etc/apt/sources.list and add the servers you wish. One really usefull tool is apt-spy (use man apt-spy to find out exactly how it's used), which will check servers in the designated area (I set 'europe' and left it alone for a few hours

) for the best connection speed, and once it decides which server is the fastest, it writes it to the sources.list file.

Note that if you use synaptic to install/upgrade, you edit the servers from one of the menus, look for 'repositories'.

**Vergil83** · 10-17-2005

if you are using sarge, it WILL not be updated for a long while. Stable packages are not updated regulary..... hence the stable. If you want newer packages use testing

**exploder** · 10-18-2005

Actually I have Gnome 2.8 installed by default which came with Debain 3.1. I have another disc which has Gnome 2.10.2 what i thought i was to upgrade my Gnome to 2.10. So, basically i have to wait for the next Debian stable version to upgrade my Gnome??

One more thing is when i went to the sources.list in /etc/apt i have:
----
#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 _Sarge_ - i386 Binary - Linux Format DVD 70]/ unstable contrib main

# deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib
---
means when i run >apt-get update the system will check for the latest updates in my CD-ROM and then in the debain website??

**junkman4547** · 10-18-2005

I would guess that it won't check for any application package from anywhere but from
#deb file://cdrom/

**psic** · 10-18-2005

It will ignore all of the lines which are commented out, so everything with a # will be ignored. Try using the apt-spy utility I mentioned, or search the net for repos which are close to you.

**exploder** · 10-18-2005

When i type in >man apt-spt it comes up as "no manual entry for apt-spy"

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