Gnome problems

gmanigault · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 9:53 am Post subject: Gnome problems

I am trying to get a graphical desktop. I would preferr to go with gnome. I understand there is a bug and they are working on it. Any idea as to when it might be working? I have tried to emerge gnome and get the following message.

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emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "virtual/fam"

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Am I doing something wrong or is gnome offline until fixed? Thanks.
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graphic23 · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:06 pm Post subject:

Hi,
Could you do: emerge sync , and then post the complete results for:
emerge -p gnome ?

We might be able to help you more if you could do that.
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Henno · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 29 Location: Germany

gmanigault · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 12:58 am Post subject: Results emerge -p gnome

There are the packages that i would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies -
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "virtual/fam".

Obz · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 274

Works fine here, what profile are you on? (paste the output of emerge info)

bet1m · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:17 am Post subject:

Hi I have same problem, I slowed that like this:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge fam
then, emerge gnome

may helps

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graphic23 · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 5:07 pm Post subject:

As someone mentioned, gamin is much better than fam (less resource intensive).

Also, fam on my /usr/portage is in app-admin/fam not virtual/fam. I've seen that several people had this issue, and

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge fam
emerge gnome

works. I don't know if ti will work for you but its worth a try.

HTH..
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