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LizeGuiz

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Registered: 2014-08-27

Posts: 1

Can't install fbsplash by my own

Hello everyone, thanks for taking some time to read my post.

I'm pretty new to linux, but I had a lot of time to practice during my studies.
Please believe me when I say I really struggled on my own with this one, but this problem is above my capacities.

Here's what happened:

I tried to install fbsplash by running: "yaourt -Sy fbsplash"
[Like explained in the wiki, my kernel was successfully patched with linux-fbcondecor]

Unfortunately the dependency package "miscsplashutils 0.1.8-5" is causing me trouble.

So I've seen on https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/miscsplashutils/ that there is a way to fix it by editing PKGBUILD

I've used this PKGBUILD https://gist.github.com/ooesili/9233111 … ype2-patch

But I honestly don't know what to do with the freetype2.patch

I tried to:
•Create a freetype2.patch in /home/ and link it into the PKGBUILD like this:

source=("http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2"
        "/home/freetype2.patch")

•Link directly the url like this:

source=("http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2"
        "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ooesili/9233111/raw/4eb80771814c7d5990e7879eb62594aea78da0bf/freetype2.patch")

•Run the line

patch -p1 -i /home/freetype2.patch

in a terminal

But either this script is not found or when it seem to be found, it doesn't run.
I assume that I've simply misplaced it because I don't understand most of the lines it contain.
I don't know how to make it run but this is my last issue on my way to install fbsplash
So, if someone has this knowledge, I'd be glad if you could share.

Thank you !

[English is not my native language]

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

Posts: 1,938

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Re: Can't install fbsplash by my own

Out of curiosity only, why are you installing with

yaourt -Sy fbsplash

instead of

yaourt -S fbsplash

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Matt

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