On 07/08/2012 10:15 AM, E. Liddell wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 08:11:06 -0400 > Tony Rein <trein@...> wrote: > >> Hello to all. >> >> I've found this overlay: >> https://github.com/serghei/gentoo-trinity-overlay >> >> How do I use it within Gentoo? I've installed layman and of course >> "layman -L" doesn't show it. Can anyone tell me how to make its ebuilds >> visible? >> >> I've also tried downloading from this link: >> https://github.com/serghei/gentoo-trinity-overlay/zipball/master >> and making a local overlay, but that didn't work -- only kde4 packages >> showed up in emerge --search. It's possible I have something masked, but >> I'd think if I had the overlay set up correctly, that they would show up >> in the search, just marked as uninstallable. >> >> I don't need the whole TDE desktop -- I only want to get kpdf and >> gwenview working. >> >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions or explanations. > The Trinity situation on Gentoo is . . . complicated. > > First thing you need to know is that there is no complete Trinity overlay for Gentoo. > Serghei's is dated and incomplete, and no longer being worked on. The one that > Roman and I were working on (see > It ) is slightly less dated, > but also incomplete. I don't think gwenview is available from either overlay at this > time. I can give a shot at making an ebuild, but I have a lot on my plate right now, so > it's going to be at least a week (assuming I can get it to work at all--we stalled out due > to problems with the packages that were still using autotools to build). Neither overlay > is part of the official listings, so layman doesn't have them. > > You need to add either overlay locally by git-cloning or otherwise downloading it, then > adding it to PORTDIR_OVERLAY in make.conf. You should then be able to emerge > packages by explicitly specifying a version, e.g., for Serghei's overlay, > "emerge =kpdf-3.5.13_p1183307", or for Roman's and mine, "emerge trinity-base/kpdf". > Adding kde-base/kde-libs:4 and allied packages to package.mask may or may not be > useful. > > One last thing: if you're already using KDE3 from kde-sunset, system behaviour if > you install Trinity packages on top of it is undefined (which is to say that no one's > tried it, but there's a good chance it will break something). > > Hope that helps. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > Thank you for the prompt and helpful answer. This is what I need to know. It sounds like maybe I just need to wait until things stabilize a bit. Is there any way I can help with testing? I'm not a coder, but I know how to use a command line and follow directions. I wouldn't call myself "c++ literate," but I can read it a little bit. I have tried to make the kde-sunset overlay work a couple of times. The most recent time I almost got kdelibs to compile successfully, but then ran into an error involving cups and an include-file that wasn't included. That's when I started looking at the tde overlays. Thanks again. Tony