KDE Split Ebuilds - what to include [tiny-mini-howto]

[taskara]

Thank you!

I just wish there was a way to put into package.keywords something like

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kde-base/* ~x86

now that kde is being built into splits. It feels silly having to have put soooo many lines into the keywords file. Of course, there would be some bozo out there that would do a wild card for everything and then complain incessently about how it screwed his system up I guess.

true, but if u copy my line of code, it's pretty easy

[coffeeman]

tankyou so mutch for this topic taskara.

pleasure! did it work well for you?

yes

[aldube]

I´m reposting this post here, because I found it to be extreemly helpful/useful saving me losts of unnecessary typing, time, and is relevent to this thread.

kde 3.4 split is way to go

i did not use "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86".

what i did is this:

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ls /usr/portage/kde-base | awk '{ print "kde-base/"$1" ~x86" }' >>/etc/portage/package.keywords

(previous scrit is from this forum, thanx!)

then i added some other packages like

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sys-libs/db ~x86
media-libs/xine-lib ~x86
dev-util/calltree ~x86
dev-util/callgrind ~x86

to /etc/portage/package.keywords .

Then I commented out all the "bad stuff" like:

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# kde-base/kde ~x86
# kde-base/kdeaddons ~x86
# kde-base/kdeadmin ~x86
# kde-base/kdeartwork ~x86
# kde-base/kdebase ~x86
# kde-base/kdeedu ~x86
# kde-base/kdegames ~x86
# kde-base/kdegraphics ~x86
# kde-base/kdemultimedia ~x86
# kde-base/kdenetwork ~x86
# kde-base/kdepim ~x86
# kde-base/kdetoys ~x86
# kde-base/kdeutils ~x86
# kde-base/libkdeedu ~x86

(so my "emerge world" will work next time)

and emerged the following packages :

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emerge kde-base/kscreensaver kde-base/kmenuedit kde-base/kuickshow kde-base/kwin kde-base/kicker kde-base/konsole kde-base/konqueror kde-base/ksysguard kde-base/kdm kde-base/ksplashml kde-base/ksmserver kde-base/kreadconfig kde-base/kdesktop kde-base/kcheckpass kde-base/kpersonalizer kde-base/kdebase-startkde kde-base/ksim dev-libs/libusb kde-base/kate

and i also need :

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emerge ksnapshot kdict knewsticker kaddressbook kmail korganizer kwalletmanager

and so on.

have fun!

PS! if you have a massive mail (kmail) folder (IMAP(d) then just wait when you start the new KDE first time, it will take some time to copy all the crap!

[Mr. Garr]

for me, it doesn't work, it starts normally asking me for language, theme, etc. and then stops and i must reboot

[taskara]

for me, it doesn't work, it starts normally asking me for language, theme, etc. and then stops and i must reboot

could you create a NEW test user and try logging in as them?

did you follow the guide exactly, and installe everything? or did you leave certain things out?

-c

[Mr. Garr]

i left kopete and arts
i'll try with the new user

[Mr. Garr]

Tried with a new user and as root, still nothing
It stops with a grey screen and blue stripe in the middle

[taskara]

hmm I don't see how KDE might be causing that.. perhaps it's an X problem?

can you log into fluxbox or another WM?

what video driver are you using?

I haven't heard of this before, perhaps it is a known bug caused by something else, have you searched the forums for it?I

[coffeeman]

Can you add kdesu in your list... This givesme lots of problems to findout...

[taskara]

Can you add kdesu in your list... This givesme lots of problems to findout...

sure can, thanks!

[shash]

Thanks a lot, dude!

Especially for the automount howto...

[pandrews]

Thanks for the work taskara. Only one problem I'm stuck with: When I try to emerge k3b (both stable and unstable) portage wants to pull in kdebase-3.3.2 and kdelibs-3.3.2. I'm not sure why it's not working as you described.

For me doing

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USE="-kde" emerge k3b

helped. But I see this more as a preliminary workaround than a final solution.

Gwion

I was trying to update my k3b installation using emerge to version 0.11.18 and it kept giving me some error about not being able to find 'libstdc++.la' but the problem was it was looking in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/ instead of /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5-20050130/

This caused other problems with installing some programs to. My solution (however it may be very bad later) was to create a 3.3.4 dir, and 'ln -s ../3.3.5-20050130/libstdc++.la .'

This worked just fine, but I'm not exactly sure what went wrong in the first place. Anyone have any ideas? I'm using 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 kernel (yes, I've heard the 2.6.8 kernel is terrible.)

Paul

[pilla]

Moved from GC

[BitJam]

I tried this recipe but am getting a failure when portage tries to emerge kde-base/arts-3.4.0

Edit: this was already in Bugzilla: #84221

[jstead1]

Tried with a new user and as root, still nothing
It stops with a grey screen and blue stripe in the middle

Having renderaccel (not sure of the spelling, not at my home box) enabled in xorg.conf for an nvidia card froze my kde at startup, depending on which startup screen was set.

If you are using an nvidia card, check your xorg.conf for something like renderaccel and make sure the line, if it exists is commented out.

[Hanoni Yahiko]

First : thanks for the mini-how-to...great to have

maybe somebody can help me...I don't know kde all that well...

i emerged juste the base + konqueror 'cause I use xfce4 but I wanted an easy way to configure kdm and I wanted to use konqueror...but there is just a little problem and I don't know which ebuild to emerge to repair this...

when I click on a archived file (.tar.gz or something like this) konqueror give me an

Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'tar'.

error...

somebody knows in which ebuild the program that let me open compressed files directly in konqeuror is?...[/code]

[taskara]

First : thanks for the mini-how-to...great to have

maybe somebody can help me...I don't know kde all that well...

i emerged juste the base + konqueror 'cause I use xfce4 but I wanted an easy way to configure kdm and I wanted to use konqueror...but there is just a little problem and I don't know which ebuild to emerge to repair this...

when I click on a archived file (.tar.gz or something like this) konqueror give me an

Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'tar'.

error...

somebody knows in which ebuild the program that let me open compressed files directly in konqeuror is?...[/code]

perhaps kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves, although I am not sure..

[Hanoni Yahiko]

it worked thanks

[opensas]

Thank you!

I just wish there was a way to put into package.keywords something like

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kde-base/* ~x86

now that kde is being built into splits. It feels silly having to have put soooo many lines into the keywords file. Of course, there would be some bozo out there that would do a wild card for everything and then complain incessently about how it screwed his system up I guess.

Well, I did the following:

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for s in `qpkg -nc kde` ; do echo "${s} ~x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords ; done

Saludos

Sas

[psychomunky]

taskara,

I was wondering if I may copy some of what you said into my KDE 3.3 -> 3.4 Howto over on gentoo wiki (i'll post the link once gentoo-wiki comes back up)?? I find that the listing of packages was quite helpful.

- psychomunky

[mario]

If you have a soundcard with hardware mixing, skip arts and add -arts to the USE flags. (Unless you want one of the few programs that still depend on it... atm the only one I can think of is Noatun, but there may be more. iirc Juk can use GStreamer now.)

If you dont install arts, you cant install 90% of the themes available like Lipstik or QtCurve. Its a bad idea not installing arts...it handles more than audio like the Gentoo devs would have you believe...

Well, my KDE is installed manually from CVS, but it's fully --without-arts and I have both Lipstik and QtCurve. I have come across a few things here or there that would break due to outdated and/or badly written configures, but those were (a) easily fixed and (b) I don't think Lipstik was ever one of them.
Anyways, you have a point, but I'd much rather deal with that than the horrendous instability arts has caused for me (granted, back with 3.2, dunno if it's improved any since then).

If you are interested in CVS split ebuilds, please, read this thread:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-331588.html

[Minos]

A word of warning about leaving out arts: if kdelibs is compiled with USE="-arts", the KDE System Notifications won't play sounds, even if you specify an external player. I ran into this myself, and there's a KDE bug about it too.

[coffeeman]

A word of warning about leaving out arts: if kdelibs is compiled with USE="-arts", the KDE System Notifications won't play sounds, even if you specify an external player. I ran into this myself, and there's a KDE bug about it too.

hum... thanks for the tip... i was looking for that...

[zsoltika]

Guide - automounting
then emerge the following to get automounting happening:

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emerge -av dbus hal ivman

add them to the default run level

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for x in dbus hald ivman ; do rc-update add $x default ; done

now we need to emerge the io slaves for kde, so that you can access media:/ etc through konqueror

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emerge -av kdebase-kioslaves

Just a quick note: lot of us asked "why the "audiocd:/" protovol doesn't work?
Because the user isn't member of the cdrom group. So we should mention it in this howto.

[TieferFeld]

Hi
Nice howto. I've tried to follow it, but I get a problem.

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Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 53) kde-base/ktnef-3.4.0 to /
>>> md5 files   ;-) ChangeLog
>>> md5 files   ;-) metadata.xml
>>> md5 files   ;-) ktnef-3.4.0.ebuild
>>> md5 files   ;-) files/digest-ktnef-3.4.0
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) kdepim-3.4.0.tar.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Extracting from tarball...
tar: kdepim-3.4.0/configure.in.bot: Not found in archive
tar: kdepim-3.4.0/AUTHORS: Not found in archive
tar: kdepim-3.4.0/COPYING: Not found in archive
tar: kdepim-3.4.0/INSTALL: Not found in archive
tar: kdepim-3.4.0/NEWS: Not found in archive
tar: kdepim-3.4.0/ChangeLog: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>>> Source unpacked.
*** Creating acinclude.m4
*** Creating list of subdirectories
*** Creating Makefile.am
*** Creating configure.files
*** Creating configure.in
*** Creating aclocal.m4
*** Creating configure
*** Creating config.h template
*** Creating Makefile templates
automake-1.7: cannot open < ./doc/api/Doxyfile.am: No such file or directory
 at /usr/bin/automake-1.7 line 7885
make: *** [cvs] Error 1
/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 417: confcache_start: command not found
configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host.
    If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
...
...
...
checking for linux/tcp.h... yes
checking linux/if_ppp.h usability... no
checking linux/if_ppp.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: linux/if_ppp.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: linux/if_ppp.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: linux/if_ppp.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: linux/if_ppp.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: linux/if_ppp.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: linux/if_ppp.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to the AC_PACKAGE_NAME lists.  ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------------ ##
checking for linux/if_ppp.h... yes
checking net/errno.h usability... no
checking net/errno.h presence... no
checking for net/errno.h... no
checking net/if_ppp.h usability... no
checking net/if_ppp.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: net/if_ppp.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: net/if_ppp.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: net/if_ppp.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: net/if_ppp.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: net/if_ppp.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: net/if_ppp.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to the AC_PACKAGE_NAME lists.  ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------------ ##
checking for net/if_ppp.h... yes
checking asm/param.h usability... yes
checking asm/param.h presence... yes
checking for asm/param.h... yes
...
...
...
configure: creating ./config.status
fast creating Makefile
can't open ./Makefile.in: No such file or directory
fast creating doc/Makefile
can't open ./doc/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
fast creating doc/ktnef/Makefile
fast creating ktnef/Makefile
fast creating ktnef/gui/Makefile
fast creating ktnef/gui/pics/Makefile
fast creating ktnef/ktnef/Makefile
fast creating ktnef/lib/Makefile
config.pl: fast created 8 file(s).
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands

Good - your configure finished. Start make now

/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 422: confcache_stop: command not found
make: *** No targets.  Stop.

!!! ERROR: kde-base/ktnef-3.4.0 failed.
!!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 166, Exitcode 2
!!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

Game over. It makes no more.
I've searched and I found http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/ but I don't know if I should downgrade my portage (I've got installed 2.0.51.19 and that's 2.0.51-r2).
Hier http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-29 ... estop.html It's said that's harmless, but It still doesn't work. What should I do?

Thanks