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Adrynalyne

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Registered: 2007-01-23

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Beryl

Sorry if this has been posted already.

Does anyone have any idea if Beryl is going to be updated soon for Arch?

http://releases.beryl-project.org/0.1.99.2/

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Beryl

If a packages is out of date, please flag it OoD on the site's package database if that has not already been done.

Adrynalyne

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Registered: 2007-01-23

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Re: Beryl

Been there, done that

Jacek Poplawski

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-01-10

Posts: 736

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Re: Beryl

Which package do you mean? I only see beryl-svn in unstable.

Adrynalyne

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Registered: 2007-01-23

Posts: 47

Re: Beryl

Thats the one.  Last update was 1-11.

There is a new version out as of 1-21.

Do unstable packages not get updated?  Maybe I'm confused. :?

xabbott

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From: orlando, fl

Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 56

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Re: Beryl

Here is what you do.

pacman -Sy subversion versionpkg

Then create the following directories in /var/abs/local/
beryl-core-svn,beryl-plugins-svn,beryl-manager-svn,beryl-settings-bindings-svn,beryl-settings-svn,emerald-svn,emerald-themes-svn

You may also create the following if you need/want them.
beryl-vidcap-svn,aquamarine-svn,heliodor-svn

Now download the PKGBUILD file for each of those packages and place them in it's given directory. Here are direct links for lazy. I had to use tiny urls to make it work with the forum.

beryl-core-svn: PKGBUILD
beryl-plugins-svn:PKGBUILD
beryl-manager-svn : PKGBUILD
beryl-settings-bindings-svn: PKGBUILD
beryl-settings-svn: PKGBUILD
emerald-svn: PKGBUILD
emerald-themes-svn: PKGBUILD

If you need the others dig around here.

Then starting with beryl-core, go into the directory (/var/abs/local/beryl-core-svn/) and run versionpkg. If you need to install some other packages it should tell you. Once it's done run pacman -A packagename.

Adrynalyne

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Registered: 2007-01-23

Posts: 47

Re: Beryl

Awesome, thank you 

tronica

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Registered: 2006-11-02

Posts: 121

Re: Beryl

now you say download the PKGBUILD file, i'm a nood, if right click on those they are html file, is that what i want.

Adrynalyne

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Registered: 2007-01-23

Posts: 47

Re: Beryl

Save it without an extension.

Make sure you have installed cvsup and updated abs first.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS … troduction

veek

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Registered: 2006-03-10

Posts: 167

Re: Beryl

now you say download the PKGBUILD file, i'm a nood, if right click on those they are html file, is that what i want.

If you're nood, you might wanna put on some pants 

Adrynalyne

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Registered: 2007-01-23

Posts: 47

Re: Beryl

Here is what you do.

pacman -Sy subversion versionpkg

Then create the following directories in /var/abs/local/
beryl-core-svn,beryl-plugins-svn,beryl-manager-svn,beryl-settings-bindings-svn,beryl-settings-svn,emerald-svn,emerald-themes-svn

You may also create the following if you need/want them.
beryl-vidcap-svn,aquamarine-svn,heliodor-svn

Now download the PKGBUILD file for each of those packages and place them in it's given directory. Here are direct links for lazy. I had to use tiny urls to make it work with the forum.

beryl-core-svn: PKGBUILD
beryl-plugins-svn:PKGBUILD
beryl-manager-svn : PKGBUILD
beryl-settings-bindings-svn: PKGBUILD
beryl-settings-svn: PKGBUILD
emerald-svn: PKGBUILD
emerald-themes-svn: PKGBUILD

If you need the others dig around here.

Then starting with beryl-core, go into the directory (/var/abs/local/beryl-core-svn/) and run versionpkg. If you need to install some other packages it should tell you. Once it's done run pacman -A packagename.

I've tried this, and unfortunately, am receiving errors.

./configure: line 22679: `PKG_CHK_MODULES(LIBBERYLDECORATION, $LIBBERYLDECORATION_REQUIRES)'
make:  *** No targets specified and no makefilefound. Stop.

xabbott

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From: orlando, fl

Registered: 2007-01-11

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Re: Beryl

Did you makepkg, pacman -A, on beryl-core first?

Adrynalyne

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Registered: 2007-01-23

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Re: Beryl

I ran versionpkg on it, unless I misunderstood your post.

Yeah, the error was thrown by beryl-core.

Its not building the package for me to install it with pacman.

makepkg does the same thing.

Adrynalyne

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Registered: 2007-01-23

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Re: Beryl

Im going to restate the error, i mangled it last time.

./configure: line 22679: syntax erorr near unexpected token `LIBBERYLDECORATION ,'
./configure: line 22679: `PKG_CHECK+MODULES(LIBBERYLDECORATION, $LIBBERYLDECORATION_REQUIRES)'
Make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

I'm assuming this is an SVN problem?

Adrynalyne

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Registered: 2007-01-23

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Re: Beryl

I fixed it.  I needed to install pkgconfig.

stingray

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From: Lima, Peru SA

Registered: 2006-03-24

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Re: Beryl

When I updated my system today, it updated some beryl packages.  Does it have the update you were wondering about now?

iphitus

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Registered: 2004-10-09

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Re: Beryl

Guys, the beryl packages in unstable are SVN.

This means, that they will be newer than releases. SVN is the latest code possible, like CVS and others.

brain0 will update these packages when it is worth updating, either due to bugfixes or new features.

James

Adrynalyne

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Registered: 2007-01-23

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Re: Beryl

I'm aware of that, but these were definately not the latest, or anywhere near it.  They were .1.5 SVN.

The new ones are .2.0 SVN, and yes, they were updated today.

I still cannot get beryl-settings working, despite various workarounds I've tried.

lunchbox

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Registered: 2005-03-14

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Re: Beryl

I still cannot get beryl-settings working, despite various workarounds I've tried.

beryl-settings fails to launch for me as well.  This is using the new package uploaded 1-25-2007.

If launched from console I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/beryl-settings", line 2, in ?
    import berylsettings
ImportError: No module named berylsettings

brain0

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From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

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Re: Beryl

beryl-settings has beryl-settings-bindings as a dependency, which provides the python berylsettings module. Is that installed?

xabbott

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From: orlando, fl

Registered: 2007-01-11

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Re: Beryl

I ran versionpkg on it, unless I misunderstood your post.

Yea, that was my mistake versionpkg always on svn. >.<

As for Beryl settings, I can only assume it doesn't work if you never versionpkg'd the other Beryl packages. Everything even after the update it working fine for me.

Here are versions I have...

unstable/beryl-core-svn 3135-1
   Window manager with emphasis on visual effects and usability
unstable/beryl-manager-svn 2920-1
   Management dockap for beryl
unstable/beryl-plugins-extra-svn 3142-1
   Extra Plugins for beryl
unstable/beryl-plugins-svn 3136-1
   Plugins for beryl
unstable/beryl-settings-bindings-svn 3002-1
   Python bindings for beryl
unstable/beryl-settings-simple-svn 3021-1
   Settings manager for beryl
unstable/beryl-settings-svn 3005-1
   Settings manager for beryl
unstable/emerald-svn 3083-1
   Window decorator for beryl
unstable/emerald-themes-svn 3082-1
   Themes for emerald, the beryl window decorator

Adrynalyne

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Registered: 2007-01-23

Posts: 47

Re: Beryl

Its just beryl-settings that doesnt work, and its from the unstable packages.  There were two packages that simply would not build for me, so i gave up.

This was even on a clean install.  It seems to be common around the net.

I saw three errors.

With python 2.5, I saw

RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module berylsettings: This Python has API version 1013, module berylsettings has version 1012.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/beryl-settings", line 3, in [modules]
import gtk
ImportError: No module named gtk

With python 2.4 I saw locale errors.  I'll reproduce and post those a little later as I tried a new installtion of Arch with no success.

I've tried setting PYTHONPATH, I've tried setting what version beryl-settings uses in the very first line, but, nothing has worked so far.

Adrynalyne

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Registered: 2007-01-23

Posts: 47

Re: Beryl

Fixed it finally.  I had to run locale-gen, even though I had edited the locale.gen file and rc.conf.

All is well now

lunchbox

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Registered: 2005-03-14

Posts: 28

Re: Beryl

Fixed mine as well.  I decided to upgrade to python 2.5 and as soon as I did the problem went away.  beryl-settings launches just fine now.

Adrynalyne

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Registered: 2007-01-23

Posts: 47

Re: Beryl

Yeah python seems to be the biggest issue.  I'm using 2.4, and its working, but it won't with 2.5