Packages Wish-Slip

jk · 2002-11-07 00:04:46

Wish-Slip...weird word, took it out of a dictionairy

I'm curious as to what packages other people would like to see in Arch Linux which aren't in it now. I figure not every user is experienced enough to be able to build their own packages. Not that I can do anything about getting them into Arch (except maybe package a few), but ... oh what the heck...Just put them under this topic, and who knows, maybe Santa will give you a nice present some day

Here's a few from the top of my head:

latex2html, and a TeX distribution like TeTeX (good luck to the packager )
gnumeric
openoffice
aumix with GTK support (i have a package ready for this, but wonder why the official aumix is compiled without GTK)
buzzword kernel (low-latency, preemptible)

and of course the ones i submitted to incoming already (easytag, flac, id3lib, lsof, wmbiff and wmitime)

sarah31 · 2002-11-07 03:56:16

Jeepster and i have been working on the openoffice package.

as for the packages you have submitted to incoming make sure that you include the PKGBUILDs.

sarah31 · 2002-11-07 21:22:26

no other package wishes? come now. I don't believe this for a minute.

oh and as for not compiling aumix with gtk perhaps it was to offer those individuals who do not work in x the opprotunity to adjust their sound. personally i think a non gtk aumix works just fine.

jk · 2002-11-07 22:33:42

i did include a PKGBUILD...i uploaded .tar.gz files containing the package and PKGBUILD files

about the wish slip (english IS strange)...maybe people are shy? come on peeps, we won't bite...hmm...which reminds me...hungry....

almostlucky · 2002-11-08 02:59:24

postfix
phoenix
giFT
giFTcurs

sarah31 · 2002-11-08 03:04:10

almostlucky wrote:

postfix
procmail
giFT
giFTcurs

procmail -> in the trees already
postfix -> okay i will put it on a list
giFT -> built it last night wanna test it?
giFTcurs -> ditto

almostlucky · 2002-11-08 03:09:20

donno why i put procmail, i meant phoenix (fixed it).
Also is it possible to do the nvidia kernel & glx? I have tried before (not too hard mind you), but I didnt know how to go about it.

sarah31 · 2002-11-08 03:18:14

i will give it a shot though i am leary about setting up something like to install while potentially in x

almostlucky · 2002-11-08 03:37:29

I would just try myself, but my arch HD died

I need to hurry up and get another

Edit: Now I'm a Regular!!!!

Arielext · 2002-11-08 14:37:34

kde 3.1rc2

won't compile on my system
QT 3.1ex3 ... OK
kdelibs 3.0.98 .... not ok, getting an error while making the bzip frontend.

scottro · 2002-11-08 19:56:17

nbsmtp, which I think sarah31 already built for me.

Support for East Asian Languages is the biggest one for me, then I could start using Arch as my main workstation.

Scott

sarah31 · 2002-11-08 20:17:07

yes nbsmtp is made but i don't know if i have sent it to you yet!

Point me to the internationalization stuff and i will see what i can do for you.

scottro · 2002-11-08 20:50:57

Yes, I was supposed to test the nbsmtp package for you--sigh, it's been horrendous at work the last few weeks.

Hopefully, I can get to it soon.

The Internationlization stuff was briefly discussed on this thread. Doing some searching thogh, has only found me the kde i18n site at http://i18n.kde.org/

Thanks

Scott

scottro · 2002-11-09 00:02:54

Heh, just realized that eject doesn't seem to be anywhere--I'd like to add that to my wish list

Scott

Ghost Dawg · 2002-11-13 08:01:39

Why not offer a boot disk once its done installing. I'm not sure if you would still need to edit fstab and lilo first, but for some newbies and semi-newbies it would be better.

Also dialup access may be included or at least ppp stuff.

Just a thought!

Arielext · 2002-11-13 17:59:49

Well ... if you have to use bootdisks you have the bootdisk
If you can boot from cd you can use the cd as boot/rescue

so why make another disk?

Ghost Dawg · 2002-11-19 07:44:47

Well I guess I meant a lilo boot disk. One that would boot into my user account.

sasdav · 2002-11-20 19:46:41

How about Ximian Evolution?

jk · 2002-11-20 20:26:46

they first have to port it to gnome2 and gtk2...Arch comes without gnome 1...

btw...soon in incoming (i hope ): tetex, latex2html + dependencies...

jk · 2002-11-21 14:54:07

Soon is now, i just uploaded them to incoming. So for the adventurous among us: please test the packages.

I've tested them, and they work for me, but as the TeX stuff is quite big, it could be I made some mistakes.Take especially good care of latex2html, as it was a PITA to build. I made tarballs of the directories containing PKGBUILD, filelist and the precompiled package itself. Here's the list:

w3c-libwww-5.4.0-1-gcc-3.2.tar.gz
tetex-texmf-1.0.2-1-gcc-3.2.tar.gz
tetex-1.0.7-1-gcc-3.2.tar.gz
netpbm-10.12-1-gcc-3.2.tar.gz
latex2html-2002.2-1-gcc-3.2.tar.gz
dvipdfm-0.13.2c-1-gcc-3.2.tar.gz

evilwm-0.99.11-1-gcc-3.2.tar.gz
pwm-20010309-1-gcc-3.2.tar.gz

Arielext · 2002-11-21 17:25:06

excelent work!

Sp00n · 2002-11-22 06:17:29

how about some winex.

Arielext · 2002-11-22 10:54:49

winex was cvs only right?

makepkg doesn't work with cvs as far as I know
but wine itself is in the package list ... never worked with it though

You can always try to make the package yourself, or even try to make makepkg script for it. It isn't that hard and there are enough examples on your computer once you typed the abs commando
(see /usr/abs/)

jk · 2002-11-22 13:04:34

makepkg works fine with cvs

example for gaim:

# Contributor: Jochem Kossen <j.kossen@home.nl>
pkgname=gaim
pkgver=cvs.`date +%Y.%m.%d`
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A GTK+-based messaging client"
depends=('glibc' 'xfree86' 'gtk2')
source=()

build() {
cd $startdir/src/
echo "" |cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous:@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gaim' login
cvs -z3 -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gaim' checkout gaim
cd gaim
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make || return 1
make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
}

sarah31 · 2002-11-22 15:07:02

actually you don't even have to be that detailed with your build as long as you have cvs installed. take a look at the package i built for giFT and giFTcurs in /incoming.

just thought i would save you some time jk

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