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gherron
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 Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:27 pm Post subject: Trying to install modular X |
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I've followed the instructions in
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml
but when I get to emerge xorg-x11 , I get several packages into the installation, and then the config step of some package (wish I could remember which) fails because it can't find /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h.
But OF COURSE it can't find that file -- one of the first steps in the howto is to remove the current installation of xorg-x11, and that file goes away.
Any guesses what I'm doing wrong here?
(Note: I tried getting a copy of that file and re running emerge, but I soon got into a huge number of compilation errors -- Clearly somethins else is wrong here.)
Thanks for any help. |
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Karl_R
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, just a gues but the howto says:-
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If your /usr/X11R6 isn't a symlink to /usr, delete it and start from scratch. But first, save a list of all the packages installing there. The gentoolkit package provides equery.
Code Listing 2.3: Make a package list
| Code: | # if [[ ! -L /usr/X11R6 ]]; \
then equery belongs /usr/X11R6 > ~/usr-x11r6-packages \
&& rm -rf /usr/X11R6; fi |
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presumably you didn't do this if yours was a symlink?
Cheers
Karl |
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gherron
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, but mine *is* a symlink so I didn't do that step. That's following the instructions of the howto, but nevertheless i *am* suspicuous of this.
> ls -l /usr/X11R6
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Mar 13 2005 /usr/X11R6 -> ../usr
Any other ideas where things might have gone wrong? |
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Karl_R
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:26 am Post subject: |
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Hi, It's tricky 'cause mine did work first time (phew!) double check those USE flags and make sure that the versions of the various package | Quote: | Other packages that may require package.keywords for stable users
| Code: | >=sys-apps/portage-2.1_pre4
=sys-apps/man-1.6b-r2
app-admin/eselect-opengl
>=app-admin/eselect-1.0_rc1
media-video/nvidia-kernel
media-video/nvidia-glx |
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would be OK if emerged (I tried emerge -p for each of the packages to see if I needed to add it to /etc/portage/package.keywords.
I'd also run another as there have been some updates and dependancy fixes, I had to fix a mozilla and seamonkey problem before I could even go ahead (fixed by remooving USE flag 'mozilla' and replaceing with 'firefox')
I didn't do the :
| Quote: | | Download the package list, and open it in a text editor of your choice. Copy and paste the full modular X mask over to package.keywords |
step (I can't remember why)
I killed all X sessions and server and GDM so I was running from a console screen, just to make sure that nothing was hanging around, before removing the old X with | Code: | | emerge -Ca xorg-x11 virtual/x11 |
and doing the other checks it mentions
Then the emerge step:
| Quote: | Code Listing 2.6: Installing the modular metabuild
# emerge xorg-x11
# etc-update
# revdep-rebuild
# [[ -e ~/usr-x11r6-packages ]] && emerge
$(<~/usr-x11r6-packages)
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I Didn't do | Code: |
# [[ -e ~/usr-x11r6-packages ]] && emerge
$(<~/usr-x11r6-packages)
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because my /usr/X11R6 was a symlink to /usr and so I hadn't generated the pakage list "~/usr-x11r6-packages"
like I say, it just worked.
FYI my USE flags are
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USE="apache2 crypt nvidia nsplugin alsa dbus encode fam firefox hal java ppds gphoto2 bitmap-fonts truetype-fonts type1-fonts" |
and my /etc/portage/package.keywords is
| Code: | dev-java/eclipse-core ~x86
dev-java/sun-jdk ~x86
dev-java/java-config ~x86
dev-java/java-config-wrapper ~x86
dev-libs/nspr ~x86
dev-libs/nss ~x86
=sys-apps/hal-0.5.7-r2
mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin ~x86
mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird ~x86
media-video/nvidia-glx ~x86
media-video/nvidia-kernel ~x86
sci-geosciences/gpsd ~x86
app-cdr/gnomebaker ~x86
sys-libs/timezone-data ~x86
sys-fs/multipath-tools ~x86
www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin ~x86
www-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86
x11-plugins/enigmail ~x86
x11-misc/googleearth ~x86
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The only wierd one is hal which needs to be at least this level to work with the new Gnome gnome-volume-manager
hope this helps
Karl |
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