Cannot view images (JPEGs) in Gnome [Solved]

[somethingcronic]

Hi all,

My First time posting in a Gentoo forum. I've recently decided to give Gentoo a go and so far it's been pretty good however I'm stuck on a couple of basic points.

My main concern at the moment is that I can't view JPEGs in Gnome. I've emerged gnome-light so I'm not sure if that could be the problem. I've installed eog (eye of gnome) gthumb and gqview (checking the USE flags and setting USE="jpeg jpg" for each) but none of them let me view JPEGs. Ironically I can view them through Firefox.

I've searched the forums but no luck. I'm guessing I may have to re-merge gnome-light with a USE flag but I really don't want to have to go through waiting for this to do a complete recompile. Is there a way to re-emerge a package for an additonal feature without running the whole process again?

Thanks,

Mike

[Bzub]

Hi all,

My First time posting in a Gentoo forum. I've recently decided to give Gentoo a go and so far it's been pretty good however I'm stuck on a couple of basic points.

My main concern at the moment is that I can't view JPEGs in Gnome. I've emerged gnome-light so I'm not sure if that could be the problem. I've installed eog (eye of gnome) gthumb and gqview (checking the USE flags and setting USE="jpeg jpg" for each) but none of them let me view JPEGs. Ironically I can view them through Firefox.

I've searched the forums but no luck. I'm guessing I may have to re-merge gnome-light with a USE flag but I really don't want to have to go through waiting for this to do a complete recompile. Is there a way to re-emerge a package for an additonal feature without running the whole process again?

Thanks,

Mike

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emerge -avuDN <package-name>

would do the trick ( N stands for --newuse, so only the packages affected by the new use flags in /etc/make.conf or given by USE="" in front off the emerge command will be re-emerged.

Check eog to see if the jpeg use flag is set, if not try remerging that package with that flag enabled

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equery u eog #check if the use flag is enabled

[tatotato]

Try the lcms USE flag.

Just a stab in the dark.

[somethingcronic]

thanks guys, I'd already started the following by the time I received your posts - and it's fixed it anyway:

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USE="jpeg" emerge gtk+

Seems I didn't compile the toolkit with jpeg support I guess. Thanks for your quick responses.

Mike