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 Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject: Help installing gnome and gdm please |
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hi, i need a little help installing gnome from the gentoo 2006.1 live cd, seeing as i can't emerge it in console, because every time i try that, it keeps saying something about "!!!x11-libs/qt.2...something" failed".
Also getting a message when trying emerge gdm. "!!!ERROR: x11-libs/gtkglarea-1.99.0 failed."
Any suggestions?
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:13 pm Post subject: Re: Help installing gnome and gdm please |
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| Gizmo89 wrote: | hi, i need a little help installing gnome from the gentoo 2006.1 live cd, seeing as i can't emerge it in console, because every time i try that, it keeps saying something about "!!!x11-libs/qt.2...something" failed".
Also getting a message when trying emerge gdm. "!!!ERROR: x11-libs/gtkglarea-1.99.0 failed."
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Networking is up and running? From console, try pinging yahoo.com or something. This is always a good start.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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net is running, because i have been able to emerge stuff like kde, firefox, wine and Folding @ Home
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| Gizmo89 wrote: | | net is running, because i have been able to emerge stuff like kde, firefox, wine and Folding @ Home |
You're running the emerge as root, I take it? There are so many possibilities here - but from what I can tell, it seems like you might have a lot of KDE type stuff in your USE variable, which could be causing some conflicts.
What command are you using when you try to emerge GNOME? And, btw, there is also gnome-light, which will save you a ton of headache - it strips out all the cruft of GNOME for a lighter and leaner desktop. Works pretty well IMO.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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Yeh, i'm running as root.
emerge gnome.
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| Gizmo89 wrote: | Yeh, i'm running as root.
emerge gnome. |
$ emerge -p gnome
Post the first errors you see here.
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ok, someone kindly changed something in my "make.conf" file which helped emerge gnome a lot better in terminal (118 of 152 files downloaded), but now it has stopped. An says "
!!! ERROR: app-text/evince-0.6.1-r2 failed.
*Please re-emerge app-text/poppler-bindings with the gtk USE flag set."
poppler-bindings needs gtk flag set
Anyone know what i should do next?
Change something in make.conf maybe?!
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check that out:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnome-config.xml
am i right to think that you are emerging kde and gnome? well, it is your decision, but one of them should be enough to work properly. 
basicly you have to add gtk gnome hal to your useflags in make.conf
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etc-update
env-update
emerge poppler-bindings
emerge --newuse world
emerge gnome
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Thanx, typed all those commands in, but got another error message. "Please re-emerge app-text/evince-0.6.1-r2 failed.
Then tried emerging evince, but it said "Please re-emerge app-text/poppler-bindings with the gtk USE flag set.
poppler-bindings need gtk flag set
I have already emerged kde, but i want gnome instead. Something about it that i like more.
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| Gizmo89 wrote: | Thanx, typed all those commands in, but got another error message. "Please re-emerge app-text/evince-0.6.1-r2 failed.
Then tried emerging evince, but it said "Please re-emerge app-text/poppler-bindings with the gtk USE flag set.
poppler-bindings need gtk flag set
I have already emerged kde, but i want gnome instead. Something about it that i like more.
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1) Archive and remove kde packages:
$ cd /var/db/pkg
$ for i in kde-*/* ; do quickpkg $i && emerge -C $i ; done
This will create an archive of your KDE packages in /usr/portage/packages/All/ in case you decide to switch back to KDE. You'll can re-install them later using:
$ emerge -ka <packagename>
2) Edit your /etc/make.conf, and as stated in a previous post, you'll probably want to enable something like:
USE="gnome gtk gtk2 cairo mono bonobo beagle avahi -kde -arts -esd"
gnome - Adds GNOME support
gtk - Adds support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit)
gtk2 - Use gtk+-2.0.0 over gtk+-1.2 in cases where a program supports both.
cairo - Enable support for the cairo graphics library
mono - Build Mono bindings to support dotnet type stuff
bonobo - Adds support for gnome-base/bonobo (Gnome CORBA interfaces)
gnome-base/nautilus:beagle - Enable support for beagle searching
avahi - Add avahi/Zeroconf support
Don't use arts or esd any more. They're completely useless. KDE is also disabled in this example - for obvious reasons.
You don't *need* all those flags, but it's a good start. Please read flag descriptions (/usr/portage/profiles/use.desc + /usr/portage/profiles.use.local.desc) before enabling a ton of stuff. This is a nice bare bones make.conf, and will spare your system lots of agony.
Also, don't be afraid to enable 'qt3' and 'qt4' because there are some really slick Qt apps that will work just fine under GNOME - Jabbin' is a good example.
3) You'll probably want to rebuild world first since you've changed your USE variable and that could affect your libraries:
$ emerge -uDNp world
Post errors if any.
4) If you succeed with world, continue with GNOME, paying special attention to any other USE flags that packages want:
$ emerge -av xorg-x11 gnome mozilla-firefox mozilla-thunderbird gaim gaim-encryption vlc
This is the exact one-liner I use to build my system, and it pretty much gives you everything except maybe vim or gvim, or xemacs, etc. I use VLC for streaming audio and movies instead of GNOME's native Totem, because Totem is yucky - period. And, if you don't feel like waiting for Firefox and Thunderbird to compile, you could always use mozilla-firefox-bin and mozilla-thunderbird-bin - the binary version of the packages - sometimes, you just can't wait 3 hours for your browser to compile. Same goes for OpenOffice - I won't even tell you how long that could take, so don't be afraid to emerge it's binary as well, openoffice-bin.
Again, post errors if need be.
HTH
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