Which package to get for Shaman from the AUR?

trusktr · 2010-02-19 19:42:08

There's several different packages for "shaman" in the AUR. Which one should I get?

lolilolicon · 2010-02-19 19:45:42

plain shaman

Allan · 2010-02-20 00:32:08

shaman(v1) does not build and is not supported upstream. shaman2 is pre-alpha but builds... I would not trust pre-alpha software with package management.

trusktr · 2010-02-20 06:03:57

Well actually, my real question is: How do you get Shaman to work in Gnome?

I guess what I meant is which package (or packages) should i install to have Shaman available in gnome?
(Or is it already available since i have also installed KDEmod?)

Allan · 2010-02-20 06:20:09

Same answer as above. shaman2-svn is available from KDEmod so you will not need to build it from the AUR.

You may want to look into gtkpacman which is a gtk2 frontend so is more GNOMEish. Not sure if it still works...

lolilolicon · 2010-02-20 08:08:15

Sorry, didn't know that shaman (1) won't build anymore. (Never used it, but plain shaman has got 508 votes )

@trusktr: Shaman or any other qt apps should work well in gnome too; you only need to install qt and stuff from its dependencies.

Which one should I get?

pacman

Edit: if shaman doesn't build anymore, shouldn't someone go and flag it out-of-date ?

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no-daemon · 2010-02-20 08:16:59

lolilolicon wrote:

@trusktr: Shaman or any other qt apps should work well in gnome too; you only need to install qt and stuff from its dependencies.

Not anymore; even if you revert to the old polkit-qt and aqpm, it will start but it won't work.
And installing kdelibs just to make shaman2 work seems somehow overkill if one doesn't use KDE.

Allan wrote:

You may want to look into gtkpacman which is a gtk2 frontend so is more GNOMEish. Not sure if it still works...

gtkpacman works fine, and does not depend on everchanging policykit/polkit from KDE, the way shaman does.
The only thing I'm confused about is how search works in gtkpacman. It finds keywords in descriptions, however results are different from -Ss or -Qs (less results than -Ss).

Stefan Husmann · 2010-02-20 08:35:41

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12283

No, the out of date button is for the case there is a newer version of the program (in the same "branch") available. If a package does not build, it is an - upstream - bug.

trusktr · 2010-02-20 09:34:29

Interesting. I'll check out the gtk one. But yeah good ol' pacman is not bad if you know what package you want after googling around. haha

lolilolicon · 2010-02-20 10:46:29

Stefan Husmann wrote:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12283
No, the out of date button is for the case there is a newer version of the program (in the same "branch") available. If a package does not build, it is an - upstream - bug.

Hmmm... that is logical, but there should be some way the users get warned that this package is broken other than read the comments. Maybe add a "Borked" button ? Seriously though, I think we can use this out-of-date button just for warning. It *is* out for arch linux, just without an up-to-date one from upstream. Note that most AUR helpers will only warn you if a package is flagged out-of-date when you do some AUR search.

trusktr · 2010-02-20 11:56:18

also, install namcap to check packages to make sure they are not broken! ... i think.

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Which package to get for Shaman from the AUR?

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