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Re: HOWTO: Emerald on LMDE
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 6:13 pm
by cpatrick08
thank you so much you solved my problem
Re: HOWTO: Emerald on LMDE
Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 1:49 am
by extremejosh
I need some help installing this i used your .deb package on the 32bit LMDE but i just got the 64bit one today and cant use that so i tried building it myself using your instruction witch id like to add ive never done this before so not sure what im doing when installing the dependencies with
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sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libxrender-dev libwnck-dev libdecoration0-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev intltool
this is my output
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
intltool is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libcairo2-dev : Depends: libcairo-gobject2 (= 1.10.0-1ubuntu2) but it is not installable
Depends: libfontconfig1-dev (>= 2.2.95) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libpixman-1-dev (>= 0.18.4) but it is not going to be installed
libpango1.0-dev : Depends: libxft-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libfontconfig1-dev (>= 2.1.91) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
no idea what to do with that when it says some of those packages depends on other packages that are not installable
so can anyone help me with this little problem?
EDIT: is there a .deb package for 64bit?
Re: HOWTO: Emerald on LMDE
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:22 pm
by TheGreatSudoku
Is the outage of the frickelplatz.de repository permanent, or will it be coming back online?
Re: HOWTO: Emerald on LMDE
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:28 pm
by TheGreatSudoku
FYI , for those looking for a 64-bit Emerald. You can add the repository of Shame to your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb
http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/de ... /unstable/ ./
I was then able to install Emerald 0.7.9 without it "upgrading" any compiz packages. After installing Emerald I then commented this repository out of my sources.list file so that it wouldn't try to "upgrade" compiz. (The default compiz installed is newer and more stable than the one in Shame's repository, but for some reason apt views Shame's files as an "upgrade").
It would be nice to have Emerald added to the Mint repository since Debian seems not to care nor want to maintain it in its repos.
Re: HOWTO: Emerald on LMDE
Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:57 pm
by trpdoran
Thanks! With your assistance I managed to waste a considerable amount of time tweaking my netbook until I got this dark glassy desktop.
![Image](http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/9484/screenshot1bn.th.png)
Re: HOWTO: Emerald on LMDE
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:17 am
by joutlan
thanks...us 64 bit users use Emerald too
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Can a 32 and 64 bit package be put into Mint repos for us?
Re: HOWTO: Emerald on LMDE
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:20 am
by joutlan
TheGreatSudoku wrote:FYI , for those looking for a 64-bit Emerald. You can add the repository of Shame to your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb
http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/de ... /unstable/ ./
I was then able to install Emerald 0.7.9 without it "upgrading" any compiz packages. After installing Emerald I then commented this repository out of my sources.list file so that it wouldn't try to "upgrade" compiz. (The default compiz installed is newer and more stable than the one in Shame's repository, but for some reason apt views Shame's files as an "upgrade").
It would be nice to have Emerald added to the Mint repository since Debian seems not to care nor want to maintain it in its repos.
Is this repo still valid? Is there a Key? I can't get onto it. thanks
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deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-sid/desktopfx/unstable/ ./
wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/A42A6CF5.gpg -O- | apt-key add -
Re: HOWTO: Emerald on LMDE
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:10 am
by sumski
extremejosh wrote:I need some help installing this i used your .deb package on the 32bit LMDE but i just got the 64bit one today and cant use that so i tried building it myself using your instruction witch id like to add ive never done this before so not sure what im doing when installing the dependencies with
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sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libxrender-dev libwnck-dev libdecoration0-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev intltool
this is my output
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
intltool is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libcairo2-dev : Depends: libcairo-gobject2 (= 1.10.0-1ubuntu2) but it is not installable
Depends: libfontconfig1-dev (>= 2.2.95) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libpixman-1-dev (>= 0.18.4) but it is not going to be installed
libpango1.0-dev : Depends: libxft-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libfontconfig1-dev (>= 2.1.91) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
no idea what to do with that when it says some of those packages depends on other packages that are not installable
so can anyone help me with this little problem?
EDIT: is there a .deb package for 64bit?
try with sudo aptitude install libgtk2.0-dev libxrender-dev libwnck-dev libdecoration0-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev intltool
aptitude is "smarter" with handling dependencies
Re: HOWTO: Emerald on LMDE
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:41 am
by debian_bugsbunny
If you're running LMDE why do you have ubuntu packages showing up? You shouldn't have any Ubuntu repositories in your sources.list
libcairo2-dev : Depends: libcairo-gobject2 (= 1.10.0-1ubuntu2)
Also libcairo-gobject2 is only available in Debian from the experimental repos. This looks like you're pulling libcairo2-dev from the maverick repository
Re: HOWTO: Emerald on LMDE
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:06 pm
by timmer1240
Thank you for this I was looking for this Many Thanks!
Re: HOWTO: Emerald on LMDE
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:25 am
by trollboy
Awesome. Thank you for this and as you asked for some screenshots, here they are. Click for a full sized view
The desktop
With windows open
The application switcher
![Image](http://www.thefifthcontinent.com/imgs/netbook-2011/switcher-thumb.png)
Re: HOWTO: Emerald on LMDE
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 3:34 pm
by pappfer
What happened to Ikey's repo? Is it not working anymore?
Re: HOWTO: Emerald on LMDE
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:17 am
by stz*j
I'll save you some trouble perhaps, finally found a good site that has the .deb files, easy install. Sheesh, can't believe it took me so much time to get emerald installed and running, just realized how much I've missed out on the linux world, emerald is cool! Anyways, here's the link:
http://xntek.com/emerald-debian/
Version 0.8.4 only tho, hope that's ok
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
I'd prefer compiling but somehow, it just doesn't want to play nice with me
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
Re: HOWTO: Emerald on LMDE
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 4:32 pm
by pappfer
Thank you, guys! Unfortunately the package found in the above link is only for 32-bit, doesn't work on 64-bit machines.
I managed to install (an older) Emerald though:
- download and install this:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/amd64/ ... 0/download
- and then this one:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/amd64/emerald/download
As I said it's an old version but at least it works on 64-bit.
@Ikey: if you have many time and more people wants a newer version of Emerald then you can set up a repo for that, but if there's no need then don't waste your time.
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)