owncloud-client

[jlpoole]

I wanted to share what I had to go through to get net-misc/owncloud-client sintalled. My opinion is that the client software for owncloud is Windows-centric and that the Linux version is the lesser considered product -- this is based upon how it is presented on their web site and is not an opinion about the coding effort or design.

My system was newly built last week on a Dell Inspiron N7010 (6 Gb RAM -- so I went with an AMD64 architecture so I could utilize the additional 2 Gbs of memory space):

jlpoole@themis ~ $ uname -a
Linux themis 3.18.11-gentoo #1 SMP Sun Apr 26 16:25:35 PDT 2015 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 460 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
jlpoole@themis ~ $

I had installed some other software which may have pulled in some qt related libraries. At no point was I aware that I might be making an election regarding Qt. When I went to emerge net-misc/owncloud-client I was greeted with a blocked packages messages relating to QT. That lead me to wondering whether I needed to install qtchooser and then posting on this forum for more information. See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=7741928

One suggestion (per user Section_8) was to prefix the install with:

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USE="qt4 -qt5" emerge net-misc/owncloud-client 

The above worked.

The default was not to include "doc" and after the install, there I was with no man page or whatever, so I began to wonder what do I need to do get this to launch? I figured I needed the documentation, so I recompiled setting the use flag +doc. That, in turn, brought 32 other libraries and about 1/2 hour of compilation time. I'm not familiar with the documentation engine it needed, but I felt like I was importing somethjing on the magnitude of a Java Development Kit just to add documentation to the product. Even after all that, "man owncloud-client" still came back with nothing.

I use XFCE and found the owncloud desktop sync client under "Accessories".

Here's a screen shot of the owncloud client: http://i.imgur.com/HJ5wtNN.png

[jlpoole]

The emerge above should have been "--oneshot " so that the owncloud-client did not go into my world file. Since I didn't use --oneshot, owncloud-client was added to my world file causing havoc on the next emerge update since it defaults to qt5. Removing owncloud-client from world restored my emerge updated to normal.

[Section_8]

jlpoole,
The best way to handle per-package use flags like this so portage will remember them is to add something like

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net-misc/owncloud-client qt4 -qt5

to /etc/portage/package.use. And then, you should re-emege it to put owncloud-client back in you world file.

If owncloud-client isn't in your world file, emerge --depclean would try to remove it.

[jlpoole]

thank you, I learned the hard way (owncloud was removed) when I performed a system update. I realized my folly and your suggestion comes at a perfect time.

Note: owncloud brought in about 7 Qt librariies which took about 30 minutes to build, no small install.

[Apopatos]

Hi,
I installed owncloud-client as well today with qt4 and -qt5 flags.
I use Openbox with Firefox as the default browser and Thunar as the default file manager, but owncloud opens Chrome and ...Easytag instead . How can I force it to use the preferred applications?

thanks in advance