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midnightrambler
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 Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:05 pm Post subject: Should I merge Xscreensaver after installing Gnome? |
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Why does
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml
state that I have to merge xscreensaver in addition to doing "emerge gnome"? I see on my system that xscreensaver has already been installed by doing "emerge gnome". Do I still have to merge xscreensaver? By doing "emerge -p xscreensaver" I see that quite a few other packages other than xscreensaver would be installed or upgraded:
root@hq alex # emerge -p xscreensaver
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/ORBit-0.5.17
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2
[ebuild N ] media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0
[ebuild N ] dev-libs/libxml-1.8.17-r2
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/oaf-0.6.10
[ebuild U ] gnome-base/gconf-1.0.8-r5 [2.2.1]
[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-common-1.2.4-r3
[ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r3 [2.2.5]
[ebuild U ] gnome-base/control-center-1.4.0.5-r1 [2.2.2]
[ebuild U ] gnome-base/libglade-0.17-r6 [2.0.1]
[ebuild R ] x11-misc/xscreensaver-4.10
Any suggestions whether i should do "emerge xscreensaver" or not?
Greetz
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Roguelazer
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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Um. You probably don't need to. The little R next to xscreensaver means reinstall, so it's already there. However, its dependencies (such as gconf-1.x) aren't. I dunno, really.
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fifo
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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| I think the desktop guide is a bit out of date and assumes that xscreensaver isn't a dependency of gnome when it now is. If it works there's no need to emerge it again. |
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twisted_steel
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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I emerged gnome and xscreensaver works without any problems. For some cool screensavers try emerging rss-glx.
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midnightrambler
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| twisted_steel wrote: | | I emerged gnome and xscreensaver works without any problems. For some cool screensavers try emerging rss-glx. |
arghh... i did emerge rss-glx but it also installed kdebase and something else from kde and now i have such a horrible "KDE menu" at the buttom of my applications menu in gnome although i do not want KDE stuff...
is rss-glx only for KDE??? |
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nex_tym
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 2:32 am Post subject: |
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after emerging rss-glx are they just added to the list? I cant find them.
thanks |
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fifo
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| Quote: | | is rss-glx only for KDE??? |
No, but it does have some optional kde stuff. If you put "-kde -qt -arts" in your USE flags, and then kde related packages will only be installed if they're really needed.
| Quote: | | after emerging rss-glx are they just added to the list? I cant find them. |
They should be. You can see what they look like here: http://www.reallyslick.com/. |
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midnightrambler
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| fifo wrote: | | Quote: | | is rss-glx only for KDE??? |
No, but it does have some optional kde stuff. If you put "-kde -qt -arts" in your USE flags, and then kde related packages will only be installed if they're really needed.
| Quote: | | after emerging rss-glx are they just added to the list? I cant find them. |
They should be. You can see what they look like here: http://www.reallyslick.com/. |
i don't know why rss-glx also installs kdebase and kdeartwork!! if i have kde, then i already HAVE kdebase and kdeartwork and if i don't have kde installed, then there is obviously no need to install kdebase and kdeartwork with rss-glx, because those would be installed ANYWAY if i installed kde.... and it just can't be that rss-glx needs kde stuff for gnome-only operation...
shitty dependencies, i really must say...
greetz,
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midnightrambler
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| nex_tym wrote: | after emerging rss-glx are they just added to the list? I cant find them.
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to which list? |
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fifo
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| Quote: | | i don't know why rss-glx also installs kdebase and kdeartwork!! |
I'm not sure what this kde support does, since I don't use kde, but my point is that these packages are only dependences because you've got "kde" in your USE flags (it's the default). You should edit /etc/make.conf and change your use flags to:
| Code: | | USE="-kde -qt -arts" |
then you can remerge it and remove kdebase/kdeartwork.
The xscreensaver list, which you can find under desktop preferences on the gnome menu, in the advanced section. |
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jonnevers
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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# USE="X gnome gtk -kde -qt -arts" emerge rss-glx
that way you don't have to make any changes to /etc/make.conf, but the extra kde-stuffs aren't emerged. This will just set those flags for this emerge run... |
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patientzero
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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I get an error message initially running gnome that says xscreensaver won't work or whatever...
When I try to emerge xscreensaver this is what happens- ideas?
X11 # emerge xscreensaver
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 3) media-libs/netpbm-9.12-r4 to /
!!! File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match)
>>> our recorded digest: 6de9fb5133763d30f1ae707b4b115cfe
>>> your file's digest: 29e25473229349c9529b3996948ec293
!!! File does not exist: /usr/portage/distfiles//netpbm-9.12.tgz
Jim
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Curious
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 10:58 pm Post subject: Re: Should I merge Xscreensaver after installing Gnome? |
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| midnightrambler wrote: | | I have to merge xscreensaver in addition to doing "emerge gnome"? |
Ok, you don't have to do it, but doing so puts it in your "world" file. This means if new XSS are released ( and they often are ), they will get installed by 'emerge -u world' even if no new version of Gnome has been released that depends on the new version of XSS.
I wrote some screensavers for XSS but they never went in because they used XFT and getting it to work on all the XSS supported platforms was too hard ( VMS?! ). :-/ Jamie said one was pretty though!
Patientzero: WRT your question, just nuke /usr/portage/distfiles/netpbm* - you have a corrupted download in your cache.
-- Curious
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patientzero
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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Hey thanks! That did the trick!
Perfect!
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patientzero
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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bod:
If I had some corrupt stuffs in the portage deal, could that also lead to improper installs and such? How can i check for this (asking not knowing whether or not this ia loaded question)
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