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egad

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Registered: 2006-03-27

Posts: 30

Newbie ABS question.

Hi,
I was playing with ABS yesterday. Just to see what it was all about.

I did:
srcpac -Sb dvdrip
and let that run for a bit-
It failed with the error:
Error cannot locate ImageMagick!
I looked on google and didn't have much luck finding the error message.

Is this a common problem ? Is their someething I should double check or change?
-thanks in advance.

kps

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Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 30

Re: Newbie ABS question.

Try running as root:

pacman -Sy imagemagick

egad

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Registered: 2006-03-27

Posts: 30

Re: Newbie ABS question.

Hmm I thought I had grabed ImageMagic before-oh well.
It seems to have done it's magic.

If I run into a simillar kind of problem I need only to run:
pacman -Sy fobar?

DeusExLinux

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Registered: 2005-03-18

Posts: 98

Re: Newbie ABS question.

dvdrip is in one of the reposl..  pacman -Sy dvdrip should install it.

egad

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Registered: 2006-03-27

Posts: 30

Re: Newbie ABS question.

I saw that and thought it'd be interesting to make life interesting for me and use something from CVS
It's so boring to think: Gee this might actually work the first time.
LOL
Any was  I was only playing around with srcpac to for the sake of learning about it.
I'm weird like that.

Dusty

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Re: Newbie ABS question.

Any was  I was only playing around with srcpac to for the sake of learning about it.
I'm weird like that.

Not really. Arch attracts those kinds of people, We're all weird like that.

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: Newbie ABS question.

Not everyone - some of us are strange.

DeusExLinux

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Registered: 2005-03-18

Posts: 98

Re: Newbie ABS question.

I am both weird, and weird like that.

Although I think my foray into ABS came at a time when I desparately needed a package in there, but when I found abs, I think I was so excited I crapped my pants a little.

ScriptDevil

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Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 253

Re: Newbie ABS question.

I reckon there will soon bea source based arch-like distro with only ABS. Something like gentoo. More people are taking interest in ABS nowadays

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DeusExLinux

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Registered: 2005-03-18

Posts: 98

Re: Newbie ABS question.

hmmm.. that might be itneresting.

egad

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Registered: 2006-03-27

Posts: 30

Re: Newbie ABS question.

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egad

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Registered: 2006-03-27

Posts: 30

Re: Newbie ABS question.

I just found aurbuild...muuch better for doing abs stuff. By the way Does kde's window manager normally  bug out sometimes for on file names?  What I meen is that I have a directory where I copied over a few mp3's with retartedly long names (from my now dusty) windows drive---it causes it to crash, or could it just be that the mp3 got corrupted somehow and is causing problems?

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: Newbie ABS question.

I just found aurbuild...muuch better for doing abs stuff.

abs? How so?

egad

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Registered: 2006-03-27

Posts: 30

Re: Newbie ABS question.

Less typing.

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: Newbie ABS question.

AFAIK:
aurbuild only installs stuff from AUR - Arch User Respiratory. Some of the stuff in AUR has packages in the "community" repo.

ABS gets the PKGBUILDs for stuff that has packages in "current" and "extra" respiratories.

In other words, srcpac/ABS and aurbuild doesn't get the same packages...

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

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Re: Newbie ABS question.

AFAIK:
aurbuild only installs stuff from AUR - Arch User Respiratory. Some of the stuff in AUR has packages in the "community" repo.

ABS gets the PKGBUILDs for stuff that has packages in "current" and "extra" respiratories.

In other words, srcpac/ABS and aurbuild doesn't get the same packages...

Thats what I meant. Their was --local switch I put in there to build stuff in $HOME/pkgname instead of looking in AUR. Since this thread was refering to ABS I was wondering if he was copying and pasting ABS files to that directory and using aurbuild --local to build them or if he meant ABS as in AUR.

egad

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Registered: 2006-03-27

Posts: 30

Re: Newbie ABS question.

Oh sorry misread your'  post.
Basicly  progessing up in what I thoght was increased dificulty.
First I did aurbuild --local
(Aftter following the ABS wiki):
abs mplayer and srcpac -S mplayer.
I ran into a few glitches. Double checked bugzilla etc. Basicly it was a minor glitch-related to mkv and ogm
I  then exprimented with aurbuilds ability to check dependencies and missing libraries etc. It's did a commendable job-and fixed whatever was wrong. I have recently been experimenting with aur(got RealPlayer-ok but  liked the old one better) - but that probably can go in a different thread.

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