It looks like XCB needed to compile awesome. So XCB has to be put into the repo first:).
Uros ________________________________ > Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:51:37 +1000 > From: che at opensolaris.org > To: beffa at ieee.org > CC: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] what is missing in the OpenSolaris desktop? > > You must not have googled for the audio & video codecs recently...for > proprietary + supported go to: > > http://www.fluendo.com/ > > for open source packages go to: > > http://solaris.homeunix.com/ > > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Federico Beffa> wrote: > > I really like some features of OpenSolaris and I'm evaluating it for my small > engineering company and for home. > > > For work I miss widely used engineering tools like octave, scilab, maxima, > scipy (and company) > and office tools like freeswitch and/or asterisk, inkscape, scribus. Also, > many people in the scientific world do use LaTeX. > > > An already mentioned area where a solution is needed is synchronization of > contacts and calendar with the mobile phones and Google Apps. > > For home I think a solution to provide a full set of audio and video codecs > (mp3, wma, ...) should be found. As an example, on Ubuntu they also can't > distribute proprietary codecs, but to install them it is a matter of adding a > repository in the packaging system configuration file. And how to do this is > well documented. > > > I know that some of these applications are coming in /pending (/contrib) and > I look forward to use them. For others there are spec files (SFE), but if you > are not a software developer this means installing all of the necessary tools > and find out how to use them. This takes days if you do not have experience. > It would be very helpful to be able to install them in a few seconds like in > well known GNU/Linux distributions. > > > Fede > > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > > > > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > _________________________________________________________________ Show them the way! Add maps and directions to your party invites. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/events.aspx
