Gnome Install Help

Tristanm · Apprentice Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 209

I am getting circular dependencies attempting to install gnome. My use flags are "mmx sse sse2 oss gtk X dbus gnome hal avahi -kde -qt3 -qt4 -arts"

It looks like the dependencies go roughly:

eel 2.22.2
gconf 2.22.0
gnome-keyring 2.22.2
gtk+ 2.12.10
gconf
libwnck
gtk+
notification daemon
gtk+
and so on...

How do I fix this? I'd really like to get Gnome installed.

EDIT: This is a fresh install following the handbook.

Tristanm · Apprentice Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 209

I think it may be a problem with gtk. I am installing gtk and it's dependencies with the -gtk use flag. I made a backup of the partition and it's contents just in case this doesn't work.

d2_racing · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:21 am Post subject:

Hi, can you post your emerge --info plz ?

Tristanm · Apprentice Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 209

Well, gtk and all it's dependencies are compiling now, so not now. Hopefully it was just a problem with trying to compile gtk and it's dependencies with a gtk use flag. I'll fine out. If not I'll restore my backup partition and get that info to you.

SeaTiger · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:32 am Post subject:

I had the same problem when I did my fresh 64bit install. If I remember correctly, I get around by removing "avahi" flag first, then put it back in the second round. The circular dependency was cause mainly by dbus and avahi.

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Tristanm · Apprentice Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 209

My current problem is that a package required for gnome called alacarte refuses to install. It says that it requires pygtk to be installed, which it is. I tried USE="pygtk python" emerge x11-misc/alacarte but it still didn't recognize the pygtk package as installed. anyone have any clue what's wrong?

EDIT: Found the problem. The pygtk required by the alacarte package is newer then what I got in portage. I'll see what I can do about that. If nothing else I can always download it and compile it with make

SeaTiger · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:05 pm Post subject:

Can you post the error log? I encounter that a few weeks ago but can't recall how to fix it. I properly can remember if I see the error log again.

Tristanm · Apprentice Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 209

Here's the build.log for alacarte.

SeaTiger · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:39 am Post subject:

What is your python and pygtk version?

Tristanm · Apprentice Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 209

I restarted with an older Gentoo disk, the 2007 live dvd. I've actually got a working system now, except I can't update portage. It's blocked and I have no clue how to unblock it.

emerge --pretend portage gives this:

d2_racing · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 4:47 pm Post subject:

Hi, you have a big problem :oops:

If you remove Portage, then you crash your installation...

If you remove Bash, then Portage will not work.

It's the first time that I see this problem.

Keep us inform and if anyone know the solution...then post because we have a big problem now.

Tristanm · Apprentice Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 209

Well, I keep formatting and reinstalling every time I hit installation problems I can't find a solution for. I'm hoping I can get a working copy of Gentoo installed one of these days.

d2_racing · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:53 am Post subject:

Hi, can you download the latest Gentoo minimal CD 2008.0 and with that, we can help you to install your box properly ?

I don't know about the others, but Kalos and me, we have the time to help you with this project I think.

Just start a new thread, and we will help you with that.

Tristanm · Apprentice Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 209

Now Gnome Panel won't install. It really is annoying how I can't seem to get Gentoo working. I follow the instructions. It's not like it's all that hard. Yet I keep getting crap like this that stops me from doing anything:

EDIT: Hmm... I can't post the build.log due to a character limit... I'll try just posting the end snippet

EvaSDK · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject:

concerning the portage blocker, you have to update to an intermediate bash version that is kept in the tree for this exact purpose, then you'll be able to update portage.

concerning the xml2po failure, you just upgraded python to 2.5 and forgot to run python-updater or some such.

Tristanm · Apprentice Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 209

Too bad I've moved on to this latest error and that doesn't help me now ^^;;

EvaSDK · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:11 pm Post subject:

circular dependencies are bugs and should be filled where appropriate.

Tristanm · Apprentice Joined: 15 Aug 2008 Posts: 209

So... how do I get Gnome Panel installed so I can continue on with installing Gnome?

SeaTiger · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:50 am Post subject:

Your last error is:

d2_racing · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:11 am Post subject:

After that, can you retry and give us some feedback

cwr · Veteran Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 1969

I've just built a system for x86 from the 2008.0 stage3 and portage snapshot,
and emerging Gnome was the only bit that _did_ go smoothly ... I generally
put the "doc" flag in make.conf, since that's kind of the point of Gentoo for me,
and there are numerous circular dependencies around hal-doc, dbus-doc, gtk-doc,
and glib-doc; I just suppress them all in package.use, and everything else
builds its docs just fine.

There's also a problem with consoleserver (? - I can't recall the exact name);
the release version won't emerge, and you have to use ~x86. It's been in
the bug tracking system a while, but the working package is still broken.

However, once I'd fought X to a standstill Gnome was straightforward, apart
from my inadvertently turning the power off. I haven't emerged avahi,
though. It might be worth putting "-doc" in make.conf, and seeing if that
reduces some of the circularity.

Will