[Solved] How to properly install tint2?

soupcan · 2009-01-03 20:05:36

The title says almost all; how would I go about doing this? The only reference to tint in the ArchWiki is kind of outdated. yaourt -S tint2-svn-21-1 put tint2-svn-21-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz in /tmp, but I don't know what to do with it. Google hasn't really helped. Is there something in the Wiki that I'm missing?

Last edited by soupcan (2009-01-03 21:17:41)

FaN_OnLy1 · 2009-01-03 20:06:30

yaourt -S tint2-svn ?

SamC · 2009-01-03 20:07:57

Use "pacman -U" on that file

soupcan · 2009-01-03 20:09:52

FaN_OnLy1 wrote:

yaourt -S tint2-svn ?

Does the same thing. Puts a .tar.gz in /tmp after saying it can't install in /var/something.

soupcan · 2009-01-03 20:20:08

SamC wrote:

Use "pacman -U" on that file

Thanks. That worked. Is there an article in the Wiki that will tell me more about this? Will tint2 now update when I run pacman -Syu or the like?

tdy · 2009-01-03 20:30:07

soupcan wrote:

Is there an article in the Wiki that will tell me more about this?

makepkg wiki is a good starting point. yaourt is just a tool that can help automate the makepkg process for AUR packages.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg

soupcan wrote:

Will tint2 now update when I run pacman -Syu or the like?

no, you'll have to recompile each new version (unless/until tint2 gets added to an official repo).

Last edited by tdy (2009-01-03 20:47:14)

soupcan · 2009-01-03 21:17:25

tdy wrote:

soupcan wrote:
Is there an article in the Wiki that will tell me more about this?
makepkg wiki is a good starting point. yaourt is just a tool that can help automate the makepkg process for AUR packages.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg
soupcan wrote:
Will tint2 now update when I run pacman -Syu or the like?
no, you'll have to recompile each new version (unless/until tint2 gets added to an official repo).

Thank you. I'll mark this solved now.

Chance · 2009-01-13 22:19:44

Can i get more explanation on installing it?

I tried pacman -U tint2-svn, that doesn't work.
Tried yaourt -S tint2-svn, doesn't work
tried pacman -U /tint2-svn-17-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz, doesn't work...

u_no_hu · 2009-01-14 04:26:57

@chance
What error does yaourt -S tint2-svn give?

Chance · 2009-01-14 23:09:40

@ u_no_hu

It says:

loading package data...
error: './tint2-svn-17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': cannot open package file
Your package is saved in /tmp/tint2-svn-17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
cp: cannot stat './tint2-svn-17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' : No such file or directory
Unable to copy ./tint2-svn-17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz to /tmp/ directory

I tried using pacman -U tint2-svn as someone above suggested but it doesn't work either.

tdy · 2009-01-14 23:13:27

I suggest reading the makepkg wiki linked above. Your pkg file is called tint2-svn-17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz:

# pacman -U /tmp/tint2-svn-17-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

Last edited by tdy (2009-01-14 23:18:09)

Chance · 2009-01-15 01:05:11

Solved with help of makepkg site. Although there were a few tricks to it. Thanks for the help.

the only problem that's left now, is that when i tried to theme tint2 by 'nano ~/.config/tint/tintrc' and then saving the file, it says: Error writing /home/chance/.config/tint/tintrc: No such file or directory

I then tried 'tint -c $HOME/tint.conf' it says 'tint: command not found'.

Last edited by Chance (2009-01-15 01:47:08)

Sjoden · 2009-01-15 01:52:26

You probably don't have a tint directory in .config, mkdir .config/tint first. Are you sure the tint executable is tint, and not tint2 or ttm?

tdy · 2009-01-15 02:42:03

The binary is called tint2.

Chance · 2009-01-15 03:33:00

tdy wrote:

The binary is called tint2.

Thanks. After changing all the tint's to tint2's i found the file. It's wierd because the pdf file for tint2 said it was 'tint' and not 'tint2'. Anyways, everything's solved! Thanks everyone!!!

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