Emerging KDE error

[MikeTbob]

Hey folks, I am getting an error during the emerge kde-meta, I have tried to find the answer myself but no joy yet. I'm fairly certain that it's a QT library/header error but for the life of me, I cannot get it installed because I don't know the name of the package I suppose. Anyhoo, here is the error I get.

error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation.

[Juan Pablo]

I haven't used Gentoo in a while now, but you can get a list of packages with Qt in its name or description with this

emerge --search | less

You will need to be root or be in the 'portage' group
Are you chrooting?

[MikeTbob]

I haven't used Gentoo in a while now, but you can get a list of packages with Qt in its name or description with this

emerge --search | less

You will need to be root or be in the 'portage' group
Are you chrooting?

Yes I am still chrooting from FC6, I haven't gotten my wireless setup with Gentoo yet.
I'll give the search a try, currently I'm waiting for QT-4 to compile, and of course that takes forever.

[daark.child]

If you look at the error message, it says the version of qt required should be greater than or equal to 3.3 but less than version 4. I think what you need to do is emerge qt3.

[MikeTbob]

Yeah, that is what I thought too, so I did a search with emerge -s qt3 and only got one return, which was pyqt3 or something, definetly not what I was looking for. But I did find a different way which seems to be working so far, emerge -ud kde-meta, which is supposed to update everything and check the depends. We'll see!
Will post back soon.

[MikeTbob]

That failed too.
I think it's already installed anyhow

emerge -pv =x11-libs/qt-3*

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] x11-libs/qt-3.3.8-r2 USE="cups gif ipv6 opengl -debug -doc -examples -firebird -immqt -immqt-bc -mysql -nas -nis -odbc -postgres -sqlite -xinerama" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

[MikeTbob]

Okie dokies!

I got emerge to work, just by using

emerge kde

Apparently emerge kde-meta is a bad thing, and I'll just install the extra KDE packages one by one.

[gruven]

kde-meta isn't a bad thing, it just sounds to me like you didn't have the "qt3support" use flag on when you emerged qt4.

Either way I am glad to see you got it working.

Just FYI, when you used

emerge kde

then you installed all of kde. You can't install the programs "one-by-one", as that is what the meta ebuilds are for. You have three choices for kde really. They are 1.)install the "kde" ebuild, which is monolithic, 2.)kde-meta, which will pull the individual programs in, and 3.)install the programs each individually without the -meta guidance.

[MikeTbob]

I don't have it working yet, I'm still stuck on the KDE install. I do have a working Gentoo with no desktop (yet). Evidently I did something wrong, because I keep getting these blocked packages. Here is a sample. BTW, this list is just a sample and not the entire output.

emerge -pv kde-meta

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] kde-base/libkdegames-3.5.5 USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama" 0 kB
[ebuild N ] kde-base/libkonq-3.5.5 USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama" 0 kB
[ebuild N ] kde-base/libkdenetwork-3.5.4 USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 12,623 kB
[ebuild N ] kde-base/libkmime-3.5.3 USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 12,610 kB
[ebuild N ] kde-base/libkdeedu-3.5.4 USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 29,172 kB
[ebuild N ] kde-base/kdemultimedia-arts-3.5.5 USE="-debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB
[ebuild N ] kde-base/libkcddb-3.5.5 USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB
[ebuild N ] kde-base/librss-3.5.0 USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -kdexdeltas -xinerama" 7,279 kB
[ebuild N ] kde-base/kdebase-data-3.5.5 USE="-debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB
[ebuild N ] kde-base/kcminit-3.5.3 USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama" 23,081 kB
[ebuild N ] kde-base/kdialog-3.5.5 USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama" 0 kB
[ebuild N ] kde-base/ktnef-3.5.5 USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB
[ebuild N ] kde-base/libkholidays-3.5.5 USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -xinerama" 0 kB

And a bunch more, which looks good, until the end with all these packages being blocked

[blocks B ] =kde-base/kappfinder-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdemultimedia-arts-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.5.5)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kcheckpass-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kview-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdegraphics-3.5.5-r2)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kimagemapeditor-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdewebdev-3.5.5)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kwin-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/juk-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.5.5)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kasteroids-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdegames-3.5.5)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/quanta-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdewebdev-3.5.5)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kbattleship-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdegames-3.5.5)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/ksmserver-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/secpolicy-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdeadmin-3.5.5)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/knotes-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim-3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdepim-wizards-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim-3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/ksysguard-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/konsolekalendar-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdepim-3.5.5-r4)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdeartwork-kwin-styles-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdeartwork-3.5.5)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kmix-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.5.5)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdf-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdeutils-3.5.5)
[blocks B ] =kde-base/kscd-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.5.5)

I am still working on it, haven't given up yet as this took wayyyy too long to just give up and re-format/re-install.

[Juan Pablo]

You have already emerged a bunch of kde-meta single ebuild, thus you won't be able to emerge the 'kde' monolithic ebuild because you would be emerging the same packages twice, for example you will need to unmerge kscd in order to emerge kdemultimedia
kdemultimedia contains kscd