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Abraham Salloum

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Registered: 2010-10-24

Posts: 7

[ SOLVED ] pkg-config package and yaourt fails

hi,
I am using yaourt to install packages from the AUR.

Everytime i try to install a package that requires pkgconfig as a dependancy yaourt downloads pkg-config and installs it even though I already have this package installed.

After installing pkg-config, yaourt outputs the message:
Install or build missing dependencies for <packagename>:

were packagename is the name of the package i was trying to install. It then goes back to the prompt

I am running arch64. How can i fix this?

This is an example of the entire process. I am trying to install gnome-globalmenu.

[abes@Archlinux ~]$ yaourt -S gnome-globalmenu
==> Resuming previous build

==> Downloading gnome-globalmenu PKGBUILD from AUR...
--2010-11-18 20:18:46--  http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-globalmenu/gnome-globalmenu.tar.gz
Resolving aur.archlinux.org... 208.92.232.29
Connecting to aur.archlinux.org|208.92.232.29|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1408 (1.4K) [application/x-tgz]
Saving to: "gnome-globalmenu.tar.gz"

100%[======================================>] 1,408       --.-K/s   in 0s      

2010-11-18 20:18:47 (58.0 MB/s) - "gnome-globalmenu.tar.gz" saved [1408/1408]

bsdtar: Removing leading '/' from member names
x gnome-globalmenu.install
x PKGBUILD

Comment by: dottorblaster on Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:34:53 +0000
looks like this project is dead :(

Comment by: gartz on Tue, 11 May 2010 12:56:13 +0000
xfce4 supported. Just edit in the PKGBUILD (configure line): from '--with-gnome-panel' to '--without-gnome-panel --with-xfce4-panel'.
Will work fine! :) Tkx dottorblaster!

Comment by: dottorblaster on Tue, 11 May 2010 13:39:58 +0000
Yeah, there is the XFCE package for this.

Comment by: JPEC on Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:23:30 +0000
gartz, for xfce, after installing the PKG and adding the applet in the panel, is it something more to do?

Comment by: scorpfa on Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:04:59 +0000
Dependency 'gnome-panel-bonobo' missing

    
      First Submitted: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:06:36 +0000    
gnome-globalmenu 0.7.10-1 : Global Menu Bar for GNOME
( Unsupported package: Potentally dangerous ! )
==>  Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==>   ----------------------------------------------
==>n


==> gnome-globalmenu dependencies:
 - gnome-panel (already installed)
 - libnotify (already installed)
 - gnome-panel-bonobo (already installed)
 - vala (already installed)
 - libtool (already installed)
 - pkgconfig (building from AUR)
 - intltool (already installed)
==>  Edit gnome-globalmenu.install ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==>   ----------------------------------------------
==>n

==>  Continue the building of gnome-globalmenu ? [Y/n]
==>   ----------------------------------------------
==>y

==> Building missing dependencies from AUR:
Password: 
warning: provider package was selected (pkg-config provides pkgconfig)
warning: pkg-config-0.25-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): pkg-config-0.25-2

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   0.18 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                  [######################] 100%
(1/1) upgrading pkg-config                         [######################] 100%

==> Install or build missing dependencies for gnome-globalmenu:
[abss@Archlinux ~]$ 

Last edited by Abraham Salloum (2011-06-11 23:32:18)

tuxce

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Re: [ SOLVED ] pkg-config package and yaourt fails

It seems you use an outdated version of yaourt.
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Abraham Salloum

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Registered: 2010-10-24

Posts: 7

Re: [ SOLVED ] pkg-config package and yaourt fails

Updating yaourt fixed it. What happened was that before i knew what the AUR was - i had installed a lot of community supported repos. After installing youart i removed the community supported repos because i thought i didn't need them.

I didn't realise that yaourt was not in the official repositories, so the package was never able to upgrade.
yaourt should be in the official repos.

Thanks a lot for your help.