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deckedspring67

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Registered: 2014-08-30

Posts: 5

Gnome 3.13.90, Porting to arch?

Hi there, I really want to try this new Wayland thingy so i wanna use the gnome beta package, My question is: How can I do it, i didn't find sources or nothing to build the package, Can someone help me out? Google doesn't wanna be my friend

deckedspring67

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Registered: 2014-08-30

Posts: 5

Re: Gnome 3.13.90, Porting to arch?

Meh never mind i found 'em, gonna install and then report if all worked out correctly

deckedspring67

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Registered: 2014-08-30

Posts: 5

Re: Gnome 3.13.90, Porting to arch?

Actually i need some help, i know i can only build it with jhbuild and i need dem tarballs and modules configured on its configurazion file, altough i can't download modules for some reason

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: Gnome 3.13.90, Porting to arch?

Simplest way would be building the required packages from AUR.
Installing applications in your system manually (i.e. with jhbuild, make install etc.) may be a good way to completely break your arch installation.

If you just want to test the wayland support you could try this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/wayland#GNOME

Last edited by ooo (2014-08-30 16:17:35)

Silex89

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Registered: 2011-10-16

Posts: 179

Re: Gnome 3.13.90, Porting to arch?

Arch does not distribute unstable branches of GNOME. When GNOME 3.14 is released, it will be in the official repos. You can build AUR packages for the time being if you really want to try it out.

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maslascher

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Registered: 2013-10-15

Posts: 52

Re: Gnome 3.13.90, Porting to arch?

Currently it seems to be, there is no way to try out 3.13.90. I tried to built mutter-git(which is a dependency of Gnome-Shell) but there was error so i gave up.

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

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Re: Gnome 3.13.90, Porting to arch?

We'll start packaging GNOME 3.13.91 in gnome-unstable when they start releasing tarballs. Just be sure to wait for an announcement, the repository is a work in progress, you'll break your system with unfinished packages if you try it before we announce it.

dsreyes1014

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Registered: 2014-06-28

Posts: 56

Re: Gnome 3.13.90, Porting to arch?

I actually had 3.13.90 working from the AUR and tested some apps but it was really buggy and eventually broke the system.  Nothing really stood out as eye opening so I can wait for 3.14.

jdbrown

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Registered: 2014-01-03

Posts: 73

Re: Gnome 3.13.90, Porting to arch?

Many packages needs to be rebuilt for 3.13.9x (and I even see "Rebuilt for gobject-introspection 1.41.4" in fedora), partial building will surely breaks a lot.