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jlw

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[SOLVED] Installing mutter-git when gnome/mutter is already installed?

I'm trying to install mutter-git from the AUR to get around an issue with it (specially this one: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1686). However, I already have gnome and mutter installed which causes conflicts during the installation. I've tried removing mutter and all its dependencies, then installing mutter-git, but reinstalling gnome then also causes conflicts.

Is there a way of installing mutter-git with mutter already installed, effectively replacing it?

Last edited by jlw (2021-07-21 20:40:06)

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing mutter-git when gnome/mutter is already installed?

Please post the actual errors you get, in between code tags.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … s_and_code

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jlw

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing mutter-git when gnome/mutter is already installed?

Absolutely. And thank you for moving the post to where it is supposed to be.

Running makepkg -i in the cloned repo ends with the following warning:

==> Finished making: mutter-git 40.1+234+g7bc476343-1 (Wed 21 Jul 2021 06:27:33 PM CEST)
==> Installing package mutter-git with pacman -U...
[sudo] password for jlw: 
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: mutter-git and mutter are in conflict. Remove mutter? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing mutter breaks dependency 'libmutter-8.so=0-64' required by gnome-shell
==> WARNING: Failed to install built package(s).

Removing mutter with all its dependencies (sudo pacman -Rc mutter) removes gnome-shell, gnome-shell-extensions and gdm. mutter-git then installs correctly (using makepkg -i). However, when I reinstall the removed packages ( sudo pacman -S gnome-shell gnome-shell-extensions gdm) I get the following error:

resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: mutter and mutter-git are in conflict. Remove mutter-git? [y/N] n
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: mutter and mutter-git are in conflict

Last edited by jlw (2021-07-21 17:36:55)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing mutter-git when gnome/mutter is already installed?

jlw did you try building mutter not mutter-git locally with the sed change added? That would preserve the compatibility with gnome-shell.
Otherwise you need to switch gnome-shell to gnome-shell-git to match mutter-git.  There may be other packages that need to changed to there git versions as well.
Edit:
Or revert the commit that introduced the issue:

git diff
diff --git a/trunk/PKGBUILD b/trunk/PKGBUILD
index 857ee98..c2e989c 100644
--- a/trunk/PKGBUILD
+++ b/trunk/PKGBUILD
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ pkgver() {
 
 prepare() {
   cd $pkgname
+  git revert -n b2b66aa8c6068bce2024e6256cfbc6d2788382e1
 }
 
 build() {

Last edited by loqs (2021-07-21 20:09:19)

jlw

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing mutter-git when gnome/mutter is already installed?

That did indeed work -- thanks a bunch! (Ended up building and installing the git version of all packages that depend on mutter.) I was unaware that I had to use the git versions throughout.

I'm supposing that the easiest way of managing this is through an AUR helper. However, as you suspected, I have added the sed change in the PKGBUILD file for mutter. Is there a convenient way of making sure this addition stays or is reapplied to new commits?

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing mutter-git when gnome/mutter is already installed?

git stash # store the local change
git pull # Incorporate changes from upstream PKGBUILD
git stash pop # Add the local changes back

If the local changes can not be merged cleanly

git mergetool

-git packages auto update and generally need less changes to the PKGBUILD than none VCS packages.  That allows to rebuild -git packages without the above steps.

jlw

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing mutter-git when gnome/mutter is already installed?

That looks promising -- thanks again!