can't emerge xfce4. or gnome. or kde.

gentoo user sam · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 7

sheesh. this is an annoying problem. emerge xfce4 gives me "no ebuilds to satisfy xfce4".
emerge gnome and i get told that i need x11-libs/cairo-1.6[X] and that it is not a valid package file. it isn't a masked file according to package.mask. emerge --update world emerge --update system, and emerge --update portage all tell me my system is up to date. well, just a little bit annoying.
any suggestions on how i might fix this? I kinda have my heart set on xfce, but gnome is my second choice.
edit: after the cairo error, it says "Change Use: +X". I'm thinking this is important. Sorry, I'm really new to gentoo. I'm not very experienced in Linux in general, but I know the basic stuff. just so ya know!
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Jaglover · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:09 am Post subject:

gentoo user sam · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 7

OK, this works. thank you. I managed to emerge xfce4-meta. I still have a problem when i try to start it. it tells me this:
dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch requested, but X11 support not compiled in. Cannot continue.
and this:
Unable to determine failsafe session name. Possible causes: xfconfd isn't running (D-Bus setup problem); environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS is set incorrectly (must include "/etc"), or xfce4-session is installed incorrectly.
What this says to me is that something i don't know about picked a poor time to go horribly wrong, OR I need to reinstall all the packages associated with xfce AGAIN. I'm thinking i will have to reinstall xfce, but weird things do sometimes go wrong. please advise.
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taipan67 · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:51 pm Post subject:

Is the D-Bus system-service running (have you "rc-update" added it to the runlevel you're using)?

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SamuliSuominen · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:57 pm Post subject:

Use eselect profile and choose 10.0/desktop profile and run emerge -avDNut world.
Also rc-update add hald default after that.

gentoo user sam · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 7

all that stuff works and now i get a flash of color before X crashes. emerge world tells me that my dependencies have been masked: i need "sec-policy/selinux-openldap". bummer. I guess i'll just have to unmask it, right? Now it tells me I have circular dependencies. Augh! this is frustrating. oh well.
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