Emerge problems in kde

Well, I recently switched over to kde from enlightenment, because since I now have the power to run it, so...Also, I really want to try out some of its apps I have used before. I have kde up and running without a hitch; however, I cannot emerge any apps, nor dl source directly and compile myself, that require the kde lib files.

I just did a standard emerge kde; however, I always get the same error when trying to emerge numerous kde apps, e.g. qtella or k3b. I get the error...

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Checking for KDE libraries...
KDE libs not found!  If you have installed KDE in an
unusual place, please use the "--with-kde-libs=" option
To disable KDE integration use the "--with-kde-libs=no" option.

make: ***No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

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...the rest is just the status message that it failed and not to post this part or the above part. The problem lies in the ./configure part of the auto emerge.

This only happens with apps that require kde apps. Is there something that I have to do to update a path or anything that shows where the kde libs are? I have never had this problem before, only with kde.

Thanks for your time guys,

John

have you run an emerge --sync since installing KDE? The apps could be requesting a newer version of KDE to what u have.

I have, a few times, the version of kde I have is the newest that is on portage now :?

ok, that's odd....

Just as a test, i ran

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emerge k3b

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It wanted to install 15 other pkg's, so i ran:

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emerge k3b --nodeps

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and it ./configured ok, no problems.

try:

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emerge gentoolkit

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then:

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genlop -l | grep kde

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and paste the output

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#genlop -l | grep kde

(all of the following figures are preceded by date and time of compilation}
kde-base/kde-env3-r3
kde-base/arts-1.3.2.r1
kde-base/kdebase-pam-4
kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r7
...

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and 17 other kde sources

also the emerge k3b --nodeps seems to configure ok, but is making over and over and over again, seems to be a loop...think its the lib problem affecting it somehow?

ok, well, here are all the packages that show up when i run genlop -l | grep kde.

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Tue Feb 22 22:33:40 2005 >>> kde-base/kde-env-3-r3
Tue Feb 22 23:45:00 2005 >>> kde-base/arts-1.3.2
Sun Feb 27 18:06:07 2005 >>> kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r2
Sun Mar 27 18:40:34 2005 >>> kde-base/arts-1.3.2-r1
Sun Mar 27 21:19:36 2005 >>> kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r7
Fri Apr 8 14:26:55 2005 >>> kde-base/kdebase-pam-4
Fri Apr 8 16:18:40 2005 >>> kde-base/kdebase-3.3.2-r2
Fri Apr 8 17:30:29 2005 >>> kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.3.2
Sat Apr 23 05:12:34 2005 >>> kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r8

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if u hadn't worked out already, genlop -l shows all aps that have been installed ;)

Yeah, they are all installed, and I haven't had any problems with any packaged kde app, just the one's that require the kde libraries, for some reason on an emerge they cannot be found :cry:

any other ideas?

at this point i would just try re-emergeing the kde libs again then if that didnt work i'd umerge them then emerge kde and it should fetch them :wink: there is probably a broken dep or link somewhere
also you might try revdep-rebuild to rebuild reverse dependicies and if you have or do ever unmerge anything you should ruun revdep-rebuild

and pretty much if it cant find a dep then simply re emerge what it cant find

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Originally Posted by loft306

and if you have or do ever unmerge anything you should ruun revdep-rebuild

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And just as an additional note to that, you should re-run revdep-rebuild (if it did need to re-emerge something) until it simply exits without re-merging something

re-emerged the kde libs, then unmerged and emerged them again, then ran revdep-rebuild...it rebuilt firefox and OOo, but nothing to do with kde.

originalloy my make.conf was -qt -kde, but I just took away the minuses when I wanted to emerge kde, should I have done anything else rather than just change the make.conf?

still stuck...

is there a way to update the whole system, emerge -u world maybe? not sure the syntax, do you think that would work...

thanks,

John