Galeon2 How-to -- and ebuild! **Updated**

dcstimm · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 321

I wrote this galeon2 how-to for people that want to use the gtk2 version of galeon.

enjoy

http://linux.darylstimm.com/galeon2/
***UPDATE***

I was able to make the ebuild they are ready for download go to the above link for more details!

(email me at daryl@darylstimm.com if you have any problems)

***UPDATE***

It looks like Mozilla 1.1-rc1 just came out which installs the *.pc files needed for galeon2.

I am compiling mozilla right now to test this. If it works, we should be able to make a simple ebuild.

but for those who dont want to wait the how-to still works:-)

I will update this when I am done testing mozilla-1.1-rc1

--Daryl

squanto · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 5:10 am Post subject:

Hey, that is really cool. Maybe someone working on ebuild for that?
BTW, I like how you have your desktop set up in the screenshot, what theme is that? How do you do it?
I will try this out.

Andrew

dcstimm · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 321

sisob · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 10:07 am Post subject:

nice one man - i thried this myslef and got crap fonts so just went
back to the old galeon - i'm going to go try your way now.
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sisob · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 11:49 am Post subject:

dcstimm · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 321

sisob,
You should try the galeon2 ebuilds I made, I have had about 3 people test them so far and they have had no problems.

Also you are right about the autogen.sh script. I could have done that but I thought it would be a better idea to do autogen.sh and ./configure separately. So if the configure script gives them errors they wont rerun the autogen.sh script. :-)

Thanks though!

akhkharu99 · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 4:11 pm Post subject:

i tried the ebuild, but i can't seem to get galeon to merge. mozilla went fine, but when i tryo to emerge galeon it ends in like 7 minutes with this output:

dcstimm · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 321

You have a couple options

Download the newest galeon-r1.tar and edit the ebuild so the mozilla-1.1 dependency is the version -r* version you installed.
(which will fix your problem)

or emerge rsync and emerge-cvs

you will also have to edit this ebuild so the mozilla dependency matches the version you installed.

mozilla-1.1-r1 and mozilla-1.1-r2

are identical and the only reason mozilla-1.1-r2 was created was because at the time mozilla-1.1-r1 didnt work. (now it does)

akhkharu99 · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 5:09 pm Post subject:

the galeon ebuild from the site listed above has the right mozilla dependencies (1.1-r2).
is there somewhere else from which i should download galeon?
thanks for the quick reply for my previous post

dcstimm · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 321

Okay it should be set now, download the new galeon2-r1.tar, for some reason it never got uploaded

sorry.

just change the mozilla-1.1-r1 to r2 in the ebuild:-)

akhkharu99 · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 5:36 pm Post subject:

thanks again for the speedy reply. i just downloaded the new file and started the emerge process. i will let you know how it goes.
thanks again for your help!!!

akhkharu99 · Gnome galeon 1.2.99

well, the emerge for galeon went very smoothly. the have just a few questions. one, isi it okay that galeon --version outputs

dcstimm · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 321

Yeah its officially 1.2.99+ which is the version in cvs right now.

about the galeon2 configurator I am not to sure, try removing the ~/.galeon2 file.

Its still under heavy development, I will continue to post new ebuilds every other day.

Im glad it worked for you!!

Slo Mo Snail · n00b Joined: 11 Sep 2002 Posts: 18

I've emerged mozilla 1.1-r1 with GTK2 and galeon-cvs but both doesn't recognize any plugins
Maybe the "--enable-old-abi-compat-wrappers" configure parameter for mozilla 1.1 doesn't work?

sisob · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2002 6:24 pm Post subject:

I'm now running galeon2 from the galeon-cvs ebuild - and my god does it ROCK - so much faster than galeon1.

But dont forget that it is a total re-write and a lot of the features have not
been implemented yet - eg. the tabs and settings menus.

that said - it hasnt crashed since i installed it. And it's fonts are grand enough
while mozillas are unreadable.
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Craigo · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2002 6:47 pm Post subject:

What about flash? Did it actually load? In Galeon1, it just bomb the browser. However, using just Mozilla + flash is just fine.

Just wondering if Galeon2 actually solved this?

-/Craigo/-

ikshaar · Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 3:17 pm Post subject:

Thanks a lot. I failed to compile it myself last week, but now, it works and it's great. I liked galeon1 but galeon2 is a must have. Of course, it's not yet finished but it's already my default browser !!! Thx for the ebuild.
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