On 20/3/06, Carlos Eduardo de Brito Novaes wrote:
>Are you moving packages like this for any special reason? I mean, seens to
> require some knowledgment that would be very usefull for a package management
> system (an old project that I never had the time to study and implement). ;)
> Would you be
Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If this didn't happen on the original poster's computer, the most probable
> cause is the /usr/etc problem.
/me slaps head.
This was it, ofcourse - I've got librsvg and GTK installed into
different prefixes (with purposely different /etc dirs).
gdk
Iam attempting to recompile GTK2 to enable SVG support, which I
somehow managed to disable a little while ago. What packages do I need
to do this? Common sense says that it would need librsvg, but this is
installed, but doesn't seem to tell GTK this. How, exactly, does one
convince GTK that SVGs *a
On 3/22/06, Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, they do cover different problems, although there is some
> overlap. Libtool is fairly specialised towards the task of hiding the
> differences in the build process that exist on different platforms, e.g
> Windows vs Linux vs HP-UX vs Op
On 3/20/06, Lennon Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Now that I'm beggining to understand how it works,
> libtool (and, for that matter, pkg-config) strikes me as a horrid
> kludge, but I don't think theres any real alternative. My symlinks are
> also kludgy, but I beli
On 3/20/06, Carlos Eduardo de Brito Novaes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Em Sábado 18 Março 2006 21:56, Lennon Cook escreveu:
> > And so the question becomes - what would be the best course
> > of action here? Is it safe to just adjust the paths in this file, or
> > wou
Carlos Eduardo de Brito Novaes wrote:
> If you are moving these files to /opt/foo, I think you must pass a:
> LDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS -L/opt/foo/lib -L/opt/lib/foo1.../lib
> for each package you install and this really seens ugly.
I'm already seeing things like this passed straight to LD in my logs,
a
I have recently taken to moving many pieces of my system into /opt . I
have come across an annoying little problem with *.la files when I'm
doing this - Specifically, when I install a package which includes
*.la files, no other package that depends on those files can find them
there. Is there an en
Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
> > Why on earth should this be posted to a
> > support list?
> There should be a reason. Nothing happens without a
> reason :)
And you didn't answer the question. Why is this *here*? I can think of
several places that would have been better for this than blfs-support.
/dev/
On 12/26/05, Sagara Wijetunga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tomahawk Computers (www.tomahawkcomputers.com),
> Singapore, released an advanced multimedia centric
> Linux desktop distribution featuring [snip marketing crap]
I'm curious. Why on earth should this be posted to a support list? Why
post ab
Amu wrote:
> that coulnt not open default font 'fixed'
Search the archives, and read the book more carefully (all of the bits
about X, not just the page on compiling Xorg). And don't post in HTML
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Randy McMurchy wrote:
> You could probably search the archives for my name and ".profile"
> and ".bashrc" and discover how I make it so that no matter how
> I log in, or su, or whatever, I always have my preferred
> environment.
The problem isn't that there's non-login shells about - that's solved
On 12/16/05, Archaic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you need the aliases in anything other than xterm?
Yes. I tend to run commands straight from ROX-Filer's shell minibuffer
occasionally; also, I would like to be able to use an alias as my Rox
download manager (although, it would probably make mor
I wrote:
>[...]
Ok, I'm stupid. A small amount of thought and smaller amount of
testing has shown that:
- Ofcourse .xinitrc has a different environment - it's parsed by a
child to my shell, not by my shell itself.
- aliases aren't available to child processes (as shown by sourcing
~/.profile in an
I wrote:
> also set my CHOICESPATH (used by various ROX apps for locating their
> config files) in /etc/profile .
Ok, this problem was solved trivially - after some experimenting, I
found that I need to set both XDG_CONFIG_HOME and CHOICESPATH. Which
leaves the first problem, and means that my as
I have noticed recently that .xinitrc seems to run with different
envvars than those I set in /etc/profile and ~/.profile .
I first noticed this when I started using ROX Appdirs in my home dir
for some things - I have the following in my ~/.profile to let me use
these apps from an xterm:
for dir
I wrote:
> I will re-download and
> install Nautilus, to see if I can do a better job of tracking down the
> problem.
Ok, I got around to doing this today. I'm sad to say that it is still
giving me the problem, and I can't get even the slightest error from
it. I tried re-installing shared-mime-info
Luca Dionisi wrote:
> given an installation that wants to save configuration in gconf2 or in the
> scrollkeeper database, is the behaviour of that installation similar to
> the
> one I described?
Yes. Or atleast, any differences there are don't seem to change things any.
> 2- If yes,
Luca Dionisi wrote:
> I'm not sure that the update tool will report it as an error
> and cause the installation to fail.
It does. I ran into this with basically every GNOME package before I
realised I could make scrollkeeper-update SUID. The main problems are
the Scrollkeeper log file, and a tempo
Luca Dionisi wrote:
> If I got it, you mean that any pkg installation that
> wants to add things to that database will use this program. Right?
Yes. It works in a similar way to gconf - package provides raw files,
runs that app to register them in the database. Ofcourse, the
workaround for gconf is
Luca Dionisi wrote:
> Then, launching gnome-session, all the icons in nautilus windows
> (and in the desktop) are the same default sheet. :(
I had the same problem, and ended up working around it by replacing
Nautilus with ROX-Filer (but, I dislike Nautilus anyway). The thing of
note here, I think,
Simon Geard wrote:
> Probably shared-mime-info. Maybe gnome-mime-data, though I doubt ROX
> uses that...
shared-mime-info was still installed, but I removed it and reinstalled
it, and it all works. Thanks for the help. :)
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Archaic wrote:
> The file package?
Nope, file is still here - and, interestingly, working properly:
---
$ file npr_sony.mp3
npr_sony.mp3: MP3 file with ID3 version 2.4.0 tag
---
Thinking about it a bit more (unfortunately, I didn't keep a log of
what I uninstalled), I think I took out alot of GNO
I have done some uninstalling (of ~30 various libraries and apps I
haven't used), and I seem to have uninstalled something important.
Problem being, I'm not sure what it is.
The symptoms: all of my files across my harddrive have lost their MIME
types. ROX-Filer sees them as text/plain, Evince sees
I have set up some gDesklets, and they were working properly. I put
'gdesklets &' into my xinitrc. Now I restart X, and none of my
gDesklets is appearing. They do start (the splash screen telling me
that each is loading shows up), they simply don't appear. The same
thing happens if I start gdesklet
David Lockwood wrote:
> If I "login" inside an xterm using
> $ su - username
> (Password)
> I can no longer start another xterm from that xterm, getting
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
man xhost
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I just came back to look at this problem again, and I seem to have
found a good solution. I got aspell-0.60.4, and it compiles and
installs properly once I unset my CFLAGS.
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Stef Bon wrote:
> Can I compile OO 2 right away or do I need I patch for my native compiler
> (gcc-3.4.1)?
It should work fine on gcc3. The reason for the various gcc4 patches
in different packages is because of imcompatibilities between gcc3 and
4. Some apps haven't been tested (or targeted) for g
Luca Dionisi wrote:
> Just a question. Are you using the package user hint?
> It helps alot in finding files installed with a certain package.
In fairness, so do all of the other package management schemes - this
is, after all, basically the point of having package management.
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On 11/1/05, Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now here's my question. There's a lot of these to be processed. Can I do
> it automagically? Can I even play tricks with vim to see it properly?
It might not be practical (depending on just how many there are), but
recent versions of Abiword
Rainer Peter Feller wrote:
> the last time I got an error like this I had an application which uses
> glib-2.x.x and used libs which where compiled against glib-1.x.x
> (evolution-2.x.x with a mozilla which was build against gtk+1.x.x)
That doesn't seem to be the case here - I specifically got the
I'm having two annoying problems with my GNOME environment, and both
seem to be to do with GConf settings. The first is that most apps
aren't obeying my UI settings (detachable toolbars off, icon settings
= icons only). About all I've found that obeys them is GEdit (and it
obeys them immediately a
Balsa-2.3.5 'make install' exits with the following (using the package
user hint):
> No theme index file in '/usr/share/balsa/hicolor'.
> If you really want to create an icon cache here, use --ignore-theme-index.
> Failed to write cache file: Permission denied
But where does it want to write the
Andrew Benton wrote:
> maybe try passing LDFLAGS=-lX11 as an argument to make? It's worth a try
I tried both 'make LDFLAGS=-lX11' and (although I didn't expect much
from it) 'LDFLAGS=X11 make'. Both gave the same result.
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When attempting to compile wmii-2, I get the following error:
>/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
I notice that if I manually do 'ld -lX11', I get the same error, but
if I do 'ld -L /usr/X11R6/lib -l X11', a.out is created properly.
However, in config.mk, it appea
I've downloaded the source of Alligator ( http://alligator.sf.net )
via the CVS, and I'm trying to figure out how to compile the thing. It
has, as far as I (and find) can tell, no Makefile or Makefile.in, no
./configure or configure.in, no autogen.sh ... infact, the closest
thing I can find to any
I've managed to work around this for the moment - using the
(suboptimal) pspell. I'd still like to get aspell working, ofcourse,
if only because of a desire to use stuff that's been updated in the
past few years...
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randhir phagura wrote:
> I will have to learn bash scripting to sufficient degree to be able to
> become 'root' in the middle of an automating install script, at the 'make
> install' stage for each package. As of now, I don't even know if it is
> possible at all.
'man su'
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David Ciecierski wrote:
> Is that BLFS-SVN? If so I'll try to compile it here and see what
> happens. Which version of aspell are you trying to make friends with..?
BLFS-SVN and aspell-0.60.3 .
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After a bit more googling, I found this:
http://mirror.sg.depaul.edu/pub/x.org/R6.6/tars/RELNOTES.TXT
>For additional security you may install xterm without suid-root; however
>if you do, xterm will not be able to make utmp or utmpx entries.
(it's right down in 'Security Considerations', near the
In my attempts to compile a mail client to save me from GMail's woes,
I am compiling aspell. Well, except that it tells me this as it tries
to build:
>>>
./.libs/libaspell.so: undefined reference to
`acommon::HashTable::init(unsigned int)'
./.libs/libaspell.so: undefined reference to
`acommon::Hash
rwarded message ------
From: Lennon Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sep 24, 2005 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: xterm setuid root
To: Archaic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Archaic wrote:
> I fail to see how that link is supposed to help. It is dealing with
> debian's suid manager.
Sorry, wrong link.
See: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/02/msg01159.html
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On 9/24/05, randhir phagura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why is it required that building of a package be done as an unprevilged
> user?
In straight BLFS (without hints), it strictly isn't - it's mostly a
matter of you don't *need* to be root to build it, and it is therefore
good practice not to be
gtk-sharp is failing to install with the following error:
>>>
/usr/bin/gacutil /i glib-sharp.dll /f /package gtk-sharp-2.0 /gacdir /usr/lib
ERROR: Could not create package dir file.
<<
It seems quite obvious that this is a permissions problem, due to the
package user hint, but what isn't clear is -
Kevin Jordan wrote:
> I doubt anything needs the raw schema files
Makes sense. Thanks. :-)
> So I assume why you're asking is so you can delete them for space?
Actually it's so I can tell easily which ones I've installed already;
and so that 'for i in /etc/gconf/schemas/* ; do gconftool-2
--inst
On 9/23/05, David Ciecierski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The same applies to scrollkeeper.
There's an easy way around it with scrollkeeper: chmod u+s `which
scrollkeeper-update` . If you make it SUID the user that installed
it, it will work fine.
This isn't much an option with gconftool-2, unfort
Jerry Dinardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a computer with that chipset at work and to make it work
> correctly you must set dev/agpgart parm to intel I8XX and
> direct rendering to intel I915 in your kernel config. I also have
> /dev/agpgart permissions set to 666 but I am not sure if this
I wrote
> because the window manager is crashing (and that has to do with fonts
> and themes, which I mostly expected anyway).
And that problem is now solved - it was the traditional 'fontconfig
isn't looking in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts'. :)
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I wrote:
> An onboard intel thing - if it helps, Ubuntu (or, now, the GNOME 2.12
> live CD) works well with it set as 'i810' in xorg.conf (although this
> is also what I compiled XOrg with... ).
And here is the relevant line from lspci:
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM In
On 9/21/05, Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words
> > Ok, some progress:
> >
> > The second problem was entirely a false alarm - somehow when I was
> > testing whether it was my .xinitrc, I only copied (rather than moved)
> > my .xinitrc to not
Declan Moriarty wrote:
> It's a permissions thing, or perhaps a video one. Are you loading
> irrelevant/conflicting video modules?
Kernel is non-modular, and the same one as was running LFS before
(where X was fine); Xorg is only compiled with support for i810, which
seems to be the right driver fo
Peter B. Steiger wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 12:33 -0700, Brandin Creech wrote:
> > umask 0077
> > mkdir /home/username &&
> > useradd -m username
>
> Every time you add a user? That would get old real fast if you expect
> to add more than 3 users.
This is why we have shell scripts. :)
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I have compiled Xorg on a fresh LFS system, using the package user
hint, and have two major problems - the first (which I also had on
Gentoo many months ago, and never could fix there - it *didn't* happen
on my previous LFS) is that once X starts, killing it or trying to
switch back to a TTY freeze
My problem with compiling XOrg was actually very different to what you
describe. I do remember having problems with the log file, but also
when I compiled it as unpriviledged, I ended up missing several files
(a comparison to my host system showed a discepancy in the order of
most of /usr/X11R6/bin
On 8/22/05, Steffen R. Knollmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Randy correctly noted that latex.fmt is produced by TeX. But
> latex.ltx is part of the tetex-texmf-3.0.tar.gz tarball and if you miss
> that file you probably forgot to unpack that file :-)
Ok, I am now kicking myself very hard: despi
Randy McMurchy wrote:
>I just don't know what the 'package user' hint does,
It installs packages as a non-root user as a means of package
management. Basically, if each package is installed as a different
user, the ownership of a given file shows what package installed it.
http://www.linuxfromscr
Tex installed per BLFS 6.1, with all the Optional stuff, using the
package user hint. i am trying to compile a latex file, and I get the
following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ latex itc242_assignment1
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
fmtutil:
Tushar Teredesai wrote:
> I use the following approach for installing packages that install GConf
> schemas:
> GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL=true make install
> After the installation, I call a script (as root) that goes thru the
> schemas in /etc and installs them.
Ok, I ran 'for i i
I've noticed that apps that use GConf have some trouble with the
package user hint - they complain about not being able to install
schemas. A typical complaint (this one is from gedit):
>>
WARNING: failed to install schema
`/schemas/apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/font/use_default_font'
locale `t
Andrew Benton wrote:
> xml2po is part of GNOME Doc Utils-0.2.0 which is in BLFS-6.
Ah, so it is. Thanks. :-)
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Epiphany 1.7.3 is looking for xml2po when it compiles. Now, from what
I can tell by Googling for it is that xml2po lives on - and only on -
the GNOME CVS. Unfortunately, the GNOME anonymous CVS seems to be down
(cvs login can't find a route to anoncvs.gnome.org, and cvs.gnome.org
mentions tha ViewC
PyXML did the trick. Thanks all. :)
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I am attempting to compile iso-codes 0.44 (the lastest in Debian
stable), and also 0.47 (latest in Debian Sid). I have downloaded the
source packages from qa.debian (
http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/iso-codes.html ), aswell as the patch
provided there - whether or not I apply that patch seems to ma
When compiling ruby as per the book, I get the following error:
>./lib/mkmf.rb:291: [BUG] Segmentation fault
>ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i686-linux]
>
>make: *** [all] Aborted
Is this a known problem? Is there any workaround/solution?
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Declan Moriarty wrote:
> ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts /usr/share/fonts
> fc-cache -v
This *kindof* works for me - as in, I get the same result as you, but
Epiphany's dialogue is still blank. But, I'll survive, I guess: I
still have one or two things I plan to upgrade to Epiphany 1.7.1
(current o
Declan Moriarty wrote:
> If it's any consolation, I have the precompiled version of firefox (for
> logistical reasons) with BLFS-5.0 and it does the same thing. If you hit
> a page with a password(i.e. under https), and press "Proceed" I get a
> blank prompt, or sometimes 2 sucessive blank prompts.
Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Please post the output of the following commands, looks like a locale/font
> issue.
>
> echo $LANG
en_AU.ISO-8859-1
> locale charmap
ISO-8859-1
> xterm# look for error messages like "locale not supported"
No output.
And I forgot to men
Epiphany 1.4.5, linked against Firefox 1.0.6 , both compiled as
recommended in the book. In both browsers, several dialogues that come
up during normal browsing are blank - that is, the text is missing.
The most prominent example is the 'remember password' box. In both
browsers, this box has only
Just installed gtk-engines, and it's working perfectly. Thanks again
for the help. :)
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Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not sure how up to date the package you've got is, but I have the
> Industrial theme installed on my system as part of the gtk-engines
> (2.6.3) package. Possibly what you're looking at is an old version
> before they started including it as a standard theme
GTK-Industrial 0.2.36 . Extracting the archive and running
'./autogen.sh' exists with a module not in the library. Google tells
me that running 'aclocal' first will fix this, and so it did - kindof.
Having run 'aclocal && ./autogen.sh', autogen now exits with:
./configure: line 21365: syntax error
I have finally found a solution to this problem - it appears that XOrg
needed to be compiled and installed as root. I haven't yet tested
changing ownership of the installed files to the package user yet, but
it seems to be working well (or, atleast, the previous problem is
solved).
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ettings and switching
between 'make World' and 'make Everything', with the same results.
There are several (possibly) relevant files (typical logs, the shell
script I am using to build and log the process, and a recent host.def
(I have also tried without host.def, and
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