ffi Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 I've found instructions on how to set up Xgl and Compiz, which I guess most of you must have heard of by now, cause it's one of the coolest things to hit Linux since, ehm... graphical desktops. The instructions can be found here. I really would like to get it up and running, unfortunately, being a newbie, the instructions are a bit unclear to me but I'm sure there's some people who do understand and with the guide can help me set it up too :) The part I don't understand is: HOWTO XGL : create /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist file add the following line /opt/fdo/share/aclocal export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/fdo/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH" I've made 2 text files in /usr/share/aclocal/ (one dirlist, one dirlist file) and wrote in it /opt/fdo/share/aclocal But still I get an error when trying autogen.sh, what am I doing wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 You´re not posting the error. :) That´s what´s wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted February 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 You´re not posting the error. :) That´s what´s wrong. When I do the command: ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/fdo ./autogen.sh: line 17: aclocal: command not found, is the error I get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 find out what package has that command and install it. First make sure you don't have it localhost:/# which aclocal /usr/bin/aclocal It's devel and you can have several versions at one time so if you have it it may not be the right version, though the error should tell you that, but it doesn't always. So, I have it, but what version/s? localhost:/# urpmf /usr/bin/aclocal automake1.7:/usr/bin/aclocal-1.7 automake1.8:/usr/bin/aclocal-1.8 automake1.8:/usr/bin/aclocal-1.9 automake1.4:/usr/bin/aclocal-1.4 automake1.6:/usr/bin/aclocal-1.6 first thing to do would be to find out what pkgs are available for you to install localhost:/# urpmf automake and install the latest with urpmi automake<version>...example 1.8 urpmi automake1.8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted February 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 I get the following: [root@localhost glitz]# which aclocal which: no aclocal in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin) [root@localhost glitz]# urpmf /usr/bin/aclocal automake1.7:/usr/bin/aclocal-1.7 automake1.8:/usr/bin/aclocal-1.8 automake1.8:/usr/bin/aclocal-1.9 automake1.4:/usr/bin/aclocal-1.4 automake1.6:/usr/bin/aclocal-1.6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Try installing the automake rpm again (urpme automake && urpmi automake). If that doesn't work try a link: ln -s /usr/bin/aclocal /etc/alternatives/aclocal (the script can't find the aclocal file/binary. Creating it with a link can solve it. . On my PC it's a link to /etc/alternatives/aclocal. However try first reinstalling automake. That should do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted February 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 This brought me a bit further but still I got some problems: form the following bit: mkdir xorg cd xorg cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/xorg co util/macros cd util/macros ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/fdo make make install cd /opt/cvs/xorg I get the following error: [root@localhost macros]# make make: Nothing to be done for `all'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 So Cairo and dri build and installed without problems? Then it's likely a problem with the source (installing from cvs is bleeding edge). Somebody probably broke something. Read the mailinglists fo more information or try again tomorrow. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted February 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Might have to waight till somebody makes an rpm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Why? If you have come this far (and you're new to Linux, that's pretty impressive) why not try later. Don't give up so easiliy. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 go back and see what autogen.sh couldn't find and install and/or complie that and try again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted February 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Why? If you have come this far (and you're new to Linux, that's pretty impressive) why not try later. Don't give up so easiliy. :) Looking further at the instructions I see you need to download and install about 60 different packages, that´s a lot of work and it needs to be done in the correct sequence, which makes thing very error prone. And I don´t know how to write scripts yet. However I did rpm for SuSE, it won´t install but I´m pretty sure some here could take a look at them and fix the problem.... The RPM´s can be found here: http://en.opensuse.org/Xgl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted March 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 I've finally decided to install Ubuntu (setting it up with Kubuntu proved to be to difficult..) and got xgl and compiz to work easely, some pretty cool stuff but erm.... completely useless too :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 There are now packages for Mandriva too. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted March 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 (edited) There are now packages for Mandriva too. :) Cool B) , where can I find them? (be prepared though to answer my questions after I'll **** up my system....again.... :P ) Edited March 18, 2006 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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