Some gnome file problems

sasdav · 2003-01-02 17:05:11

I'm doing an FTP install (yes, again) and gnome seems to have a problem.
pacman is looking for libgnome-2.0.6-1 and
gnome-desktop-2.0.10-1, but they don't exist. libgnome-2.0.5-1 and gnome-desktop-2.0.9-1 are on the mirrors, so why is pacman looking for the others?
Also, pacman seems to be having trouble connecting to ibiblio and archlinux. I'm downloading from webtrak right now and it is S L O W.

Thanks

Oh, by the way. I see some improvements have been made to the install. Very nice.

sarah31 · 2003-01-02 17:12:50

well there is no short answer for why pacman is looking for a newer version except to say that the package is not upgraded yet. if you go to /usr/abs/gnome and then into the directories in question the PKGBUILD contain all necessary info to build those newr packages. you can then issue "makepkg" then pacman -A the the resulting package into your system.

as for sources.....ibiblio will slow down every holiday i recommend that you switch the archlinux source to the top of your server list. it gets busy sometimes but it is way faster than ibiblio

sasdav · 2003-01-02 17:17:44

Yep, I had a feeling it wasn't anything easy. So you'll know, after the initial installation I called abs then went into /usr/abs/gnome and issued the command
pacman -S `ls`
So, if there is a problem with the PKGBUILD file it's because abs put it there.
Question: Can I edit the PKGBUILD file to look for the versions that are there, then run pacman again?

sarah31 · 2003-01-02 17:30:39

no editing the pkgbuild will not do anything to facilitate getting pacman to work. the gnome maintainer will have put the new packages (gnome-panel is also not upgraded) in the ftp tree then sync the package tree with abs.

that should not take long but if you cannot wait just build the packages yourself and then install them then install the rest of the packages again. but when it prompts to uopgrade those three packages don't upgrade them. building those three packages will require installing certain dependencies which should not give you troubles. i install all the gnome packages this way yesterday. granted it is not very quick of very clean but it got the job done.

sasdav · 2003-01-02 17:51:25

Build it myself? Blech!

Guess I'll just wait until all the packages are caught up.

Thanks

Arielext · 2003-01-02 18:11:39

Building packages yourself isn't evil

sasdav · 2003-01-02 18:13:02

Well, I'm not opposed to trying. Anyone have any clues how to start? The three packages are libgnome gnome-desktop and gnome-panel.

apeiro · 2003-01-02 18:36:32

I'm bulding the missing packages now. They'll be on the main server in 10 minutes or so.

sasdav · 2003-01-02 19:08:32

That seems to have taken care of it.
Thanks

sarah31 · 2003-01-02 20:09:11

sasdav wrote:

Well, I'm not opposed to trying. Anyone have any clues how to start? The three packages are libgnome gnome-desktop and gnome-panel.

all you would have had to do is:

1. run abs
2. su to root
3. cd to /usr/abs/gnome/libgnome (for example)
3. run makepkg
4. install the resulting package with pacman -A or pacman -U be sure to use the entire name of the package though.

sasdav · 2003-01-02 20:17:39

Yes, I eventually figured all that out, but makepkg gave me errors about gnome.sh not existing.

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Some gnome file problems

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