[Cialug] Install Gnome 3 w/o network-manager and pulseaudio

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

Hehe. I just recently installed RHEL 6 at work for the first time. I did 
a minimal install, which was so minimal that networking wasn't even 
configured! Turns out it's because RHEL 6 went to networkmanager, and 
that package isn't installed with the minimal set. A quick manual edit 
of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 got networking working 
again though.

I might've found half of the solution to the Gnome 3 issues on Debian; 
it seems that on installation the network-manager package *comments out* 
the lines in /etc/network/interfaces that allow the network to work! I 
was a bit flabbergasted to discover that, but whatever. I really 
wouldn't mind having the network-manager package installed as long as it 
is completely dormant. So i think the solution would be to not only 
disable its init.d scripts, but also remove the commenting out that it 
adds to the /etc/network/interfaces file.

Now if i can find out how to completely disable pulseaudio despite 
having it installed, maybe i can put the gnome package back on the 
system. I'll keep looking...

On 2011-11-14 at 09:15:49, Dave Hala Jr wrote:
>While I can't help you with Debian, I will chime in and say that the
>new "networkmanager" in Centos 6/RHEL is a pita too.  In fact, I also
>removed it.
>
>On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 09:11 -0600, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
>> I've been holding off updates on my Debian Testing box for a couple
>> weeks because it wanted to update Gnome from version 2 to 3 and i
>> expected that would break a few things.
>> 
>> This morning i bit the bullet and did the update. Networking and
>> audio were completely borked on the system due to Gnome 3 pulling
>> in network- manager and pulseaudio. I got things working again by
>> purging those 2 pieces of trash; disabling them in /etc/init.d
>> wasn't sufficient for reasons i didn't dig deep enough to discover.
>> Unfortunately, removing those required me to remove the gnome
>> package due to the dependencies.
>> 
>> Does anyone happen to know how to install Gnome 3 without including
>> network-manager and pulseaudio? Would i have to compile it myself
>> after tweaking the package a bit?
>> 
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>> Daniel A. Ramaley
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>> 
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E-mail: daniel.ramaley at drake.edu