emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "xgl".

j.vimal · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

Hi
I am getting this error when I try to install XGL.

nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

You do have a copy of the CoffeeBuzz overlay, and have added PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/path/to/overlay" to /etc/make.conf right?

Try following: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xgl

j.vimal · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

That was a problem.
For me, "svn co" does not work.
I checked its man, it didnt say anything about setting up a proxy. And I am behind a network http proxy...
Also, I did export http_proxy variable.
...
But, I tried an alternative.
Using wget, I mirrored the entire /xgl-coffee to my hard-disk, and copied the files to

j.vimal · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

Ah, I am so ignorant of what is happening to my computer...

The folder xgl-coffee had a trunk folder inside it, I just moved everything inside it to the parent directory: xgl-coffee
Now, emerge is working.
I will change the title of the post to [SOLVED] as soon as it works

Thanks for your help

j.vimal · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 10

It gets stuck at a point ::