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vvirla

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From: Caracas, Venezuela

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 13

Guake-Terminal PKGBUILD and a couple of questions

Hello folks. First post here. I just installed Archlinux like 2 days ago and I'm already enjoying it a lot The only application I haven't found so far on Arch's repos is Guake-Terminal (for those who don't know it, it's a nice drop-down terminal for Gnome, similar to KDE's yakuake). So, since I don't like to install things directly from source but rather from binary packages, I decided to write a PKGBUILD for this app. So I did, and the package built fine, I installed it, and it runs fine, but there's a little but harmless issue with the first run: when you first execute the app you get an error message saying you have to install the schema file, so you have to install it as user with gconftool-2.

I attempted to solve this issue by executing the 'configure' script like this:

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gconf-schema-file-dir=/usr/share/gconf/schemas

but it didn't seem to solve the problem.

Now, the questions are:

1) Is it possible to solve this schema file issue in the configuration/compilation process? (thinking it better, I should contact guake's developer).

2) How do I submit my PKGBUILD so other people can benefit from it?

3) Is it ok to copy my PKGBUILD here so other people can test it?

Oh, and by the way, guake's site is http://www.guake-terminal.org/

Greetings, and thanks in advance

tami

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From: Norway, Oslo

Registered: 2007-11-10

Posts: 58

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Re: Guake-Terminal PKGBUILD and a couple of questions

I'm sorry if I disappoint you but the package is in AUR Actually, there are three versions of guake there.
One of them, f.i., here:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15547
But I have to admit I like your attitude - welcome to Arch,
tami

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vvirla

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From: Caracas, Venezuela

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 13

Re: Guake-Terminal PKGBUILD and a couple of questions

Hi, I had not realized the package was already in AUR, thanks for making me notice that (I searched on the repos with pacman but I found nothing, unless I didn't search correctly). Well, I guess I'll have to look for another package to have fun with

Greetings and thank you again.

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: Guake-Terminal PKGBUILD and a couple of questions

(I searched on the repos with pacman but I found nothing, unless I didn't search correctly)

You won't be able to find packages on AUR through pacman, unless you install yaourt. The other way is to search directly on the website.

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vvirla

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From: Caracas, Venezuela

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 13

Re: Guake-Terminal PKGBUILD and a couple of questions

Installed yaourt and it's very nice. Thank you for the suggestion.