Arch Linux – Gnome 2.16 moved to main repos
There were a lot of updates last night, featuring moving Gnome 2.16 from the testing repos to the main ones. Everything seems to work fine. I did run into one small issue on my 64 bit system which would not allow me to log into my Gnome desktop due to a missing dbus library. Here is the easy workaround I used:
ln -s /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.2
I was then able to log into my desktop fine. There were no issues at all on my main system. Gnome 2.16 is very nice. The Gnome dev team is doing great work and improving on Gnome with every release. There was a time back before 2.14 when I didn’t really like Gnome much at all, but it has been my default desktop since 2.14 and there is no sign of changing that.