[SOLVED] Installing Cinnamon - Conflicts

[ShiroiKuma]

I thought I'd give cinnamon a try out, so I tried to emerge it with the --autounmask-write flag to flag all the required packages with ~x86. (package.keywords at the end of my post)

I then did an "emerge -uavDN world" and "revdep-rebuild", followed by "emerge --depclean", just so I could update any needed packages that are already installed. This worked fine.

However when I try to emerge cinnamon now I get one final conflict that I just can't figure out how to resolve.

[jpc22]

Updating packages to a more recent unstable version usually your best bet.

your gtk+ and gnome-control-center are already the latest ~

do the math next time:

conflicts are simply unsolved inequality between required versions

gtk+-3.6.2::gentoo>=x11-libs/gtk+-3.5.13:3 thats o.k


gtk+-3.6.2::gentoo≠<x11-libs/gtk+-3.5:3 this is not o.k



bumping gnome-themes-standard to ~3.6.2 was required


you could also try those packages from the official gentoo overlay

[ShiroiKuma]

Thank you for the condescending tone there.

Reffering to my first EDIT, I stated that I had found the packages (admittedly by browsing around on http://gpo.zugaina.org/gnome-extra/cinnamon/ at the reverse dependencies for ages) that also needed to be updated.

When I first attempted the install I had assumed the --autounmask-write had considered all of them, but alas it hadn't. That was my first n00b mistake.

I think though, that the actual packages installed were from the official overlay, I merely used zugaina's website to find out what other packages needed ~'ing.

I may try it again, if I can get fglrx installed for my centrino/x300 dell laptop working, but I don't think fglrx supports this old card anymore. For now, LXDE does the job and has a layout I like.

[jpc22]

Please accept my dearest apologies, for i did not mean to be condescending in any way.


I`m normally a nice guy in my native language. (looked up condescending in the dictionary).
It was pretty late yesterday and did not remark [solved] and i wanted to become more active in gentoo community for the ongoing year.






I hope not having offended you too much in the way i presented my thoughts , and will keep this in mind when further expressing myself.