xfce 4.6 for the adventurous folks

neri · 2008-12-06 06:10:24

I have compiled a xfce46 beta2 set of PKGBUILD files with a build script.
http://www.evilroot.net/xfce46.tar.gz
just untar and run the buildlist.sh script (YOU MUST HAVE sudo INSTALLED AND ACTIVATED)

lemme know if you encounter any problems. These are the PKGBUILD that will be used for the official build once 46 final is released.

-T

zyghom · 2008-12-06 09:29:40

it works for me with 2 exceptions:
1-glade not installed by default and missing for one module
2-notifyd conflicts with notification daemon

the rest is superb !
thanks

razzle · 2008-12-20 23:48:26

Works also for me but xfce4-panel's PKGBUILD is missing libwnck as dependancy.
Also xfdesktop, xfce4-session and xfwm4 are missing the same dependancy (but they are built later so it's not a big problem, it'd be if someone compiled them individually).
See also: http://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.6/general-info

However, great work! Thank you very much!

jarryson · 2008-12-21 15:34:44

there is already -devel xfce4.6 in AUR...

Army · 2008-12-21 20:24:07

Sure, but there are a lot of packages missing in AUR! I prefer this http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=52031 Rock stable here and everything included for my needs. If you miss something, just tell the packer in the thread, I'm pretty sure he'll add it quickly.

neri · 2009-01-19 07:19:53

Okay, this release is the beta3 with all fixed dependencies.
http://www.evilroot.net/xfce46.tar.bz2
The rules are the same:
- leave X or be in a NOT xfce4 environment
- vim buildlist.sh and adjust the path (I know I should fix that with basedir)
- run the script and wait
- verify that all packages build ( mkdir "xfce4pkages" && find /path/to/build/dir -name '*.pkg.tar.gz' -exec mv {} xfce4packages \; ) that should leave you with a directory full of 58 files
- enjoy and report back

Please note that this tarball is a git reporitory, so you can see history etc.
neri

Last edited by neri (2009-01-19 07:20:19)

zyghom · 2009-01-19 08:18:24

If I might, I modified a bit your script
first thing is to be able to skip some packages just with #
second: use makepkg -i instead of pacman -U

#!/bin/bash

cd /mnt/me/myabs/xfce46
sudo pacman -Rc xfce4 xfce4-goodies
find . -name 'src' -exec rm -rf {} \;
find . -name 'pkg' -exec rm -rf {} \;
find . -name '*.pkg.tar.gz' -exec rm -f {} \;

for pkg in $(cat buildorder); do
  if [[ "$pkg" =~ "#" ]]
  then 
        echo "ommiting $pkg"
  else
    cd $pkg;
    if [ -f *.pkg.tar.gz ]; then
       rm -rf src pkg *.pkg.tar.gz
    fi
    echo -n "building $pkg..."
    makepkg -f -c  -i > /dev/null 2>&1 || return 1  
    #    sudo pacman -Udf *.pkg.tar.gz
    cd ..
    echo "done"
  fi
done

ondope · 2009-01-25 19:42:51

.. or for the really lazy

Before the [extra] repo in your pacman.conf

i686
[xfce-4.6]
Server = http://skunnyk.toile-libre.org/archlinu … /archives/

x86_64
[xfce-4.6]
Server = http://skunnyk.toile-libre.org/archlinu … es/x86_64/

You can install the metapackage xfce4.6 :
# pacman -S xfce4.6

jarryson · 2009-01-26 05:13:42

nice! get more easy to use new xfce4, thanks very much

but i prefer to use xfce4-svn repo.

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#1 2008-12-06 06:10:24

xfce 4.6 for the adventurous folks

#2 2008-12-06 09:29:40

Re: xfce 4.6 for the adventurous folks

#3 2008-12-20 23:48:26

Re: xfce 4.6 for the adventurous folks

#4 2008-12-21 15:34:44

Re: xfce 4.6 for the adventurous folks

#5 2008-12-21 20:24:07

Re: xfce 4.6 for the adventurous folks

#6 2009-01-19 07:19:53

Re: xfce 4.6 for the adventurous folks

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