problem with instaling beryl

[redhawk]

hi guys in fairly new at linux, so bare with me =)

ive been checking aroud this forums for a while and also looked around the wiki for help.
im using the steps described at http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/I...dgy_with_AIGLX

now here goes..

first of i used the

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

command to add

deb [url]http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/[/url] edgy main
deb-src [url]http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org[/url] edgy main

in my "sources.list"

so far so good ay

then its time to ad the GPG key.

i used the command

wget [url]http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg[/url] -O- | sudo apt-key add -

witch prints out

.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
--12:07:10-- [url]http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg[/url]
     => `-'
Resolving ubuntu.beryl-project.org... 1.0.0.0
Connecting to ubuntu.beryl-project.org|1.0.0.0|:80... failed: No route to host.
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.

now even a nuub like me can understand that

gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.

is not good.

so i tried the command about 3 times again(after checking http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/ for more info) and on the forth it output

--12:49:52-- [url]http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg[/url]
     => `-'
Resolving ubuntu.beryl-project.org... 64.15.154.150
Connecting to ubuntu.beryl-project.org|64.15.154.150|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2 415 (2.4K) [application/x-troff-me]

100%[====================================>] 2 415    --.--K/s

12:49:52 (153.54 MB/s) - `-' saved [2415/2415]

OK

sweet pie! 8O

now on we go.
next i use this line in the termial

sudo apt-get update

and it output aloth of stuff. but this cought my eye.

Fel [url]http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org[/url] edgy Release.gpg
 Kunde inte ansluta till ubuntu.beryl-project.org:80 (1.0.0.0). - connect (113              No route to host)

well ok for those thats not swedish it translates roughly into

"error" [url]http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org[/url] edgy Release.gpg
 could not connect to ubuntu.beryl-project.org:80 (1.0.0.0). - connect (113              No route to host)

well i thought maby the grafical interface would make a diffrence.
so i start "adept manager" and check the repositories.
and i find

deb [url]http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/[/url] edgy main
deb-src [url]http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org[/url] edgy main

right where i put em.

now i click "fetch updates" and it starts working. but when the program is done nothing has changed in the pakage view.

so at this stage im lost. do anyone know what i should do?
thank you for your time.

btw i also posted this thread here...
http://forum.beryl-project.org/viewt...p=22392#p22392

[monte48lowes]

Re: problem with instaling beryl

redhawk,

I do not have the deb-src repository in my list for beryl. Try commenting that out and attempt the install.

Mike

[redhawk]

Re: problem with instaling beryl

i removed that line.

and i ran the
gpg command again just to be sure to have the right key again.

then i ran

sudo apt-get update

again. now it seems that i got the pakages...

next i run the

sudo apt-get install beryl

now the terminal output something in swedish about dependensies

so i try

sudo aptitude install beryl

instead and it outputs

redhawk@redhawk-laptop:~$ sudo aptitude install beryl
Läser paketlistor... Färdig
Bygger beroendeträd
Reading state information... Färdig
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Färdig
Building tag database... Färdig
The following packages are BROKEN:
 beryl-plugins beryl-settings libwnck18
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
 beryl-core beryl-manager beryl-plugins-data beryl-settings-bindings emerald emerald-themes
 libberyldecoration0 libberylsettings0 libemeraldengine0 libwnck-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
 beryl beryl-core beryl-manager beryl-plugins-data beryl-settings-bindings emerald emerald-themes
 libberyldecoration0 libberylsettings0 libemeraldengine0 libwnck-common
0 packages upgraded, 14 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 5543kB of archives. After unpacking 15,0MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libwnck18: Beror: libxres1 which is a virtual package.
 beryl-settings: Beror: librsvg2-common which is a virtual package.
         Beror: python-gtk2 which is a virtual package.
 beryl-plugins: Beror: librsvg2-2 (>= 2.14.4) which is a virtual package.
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
beryl [Not Installed]
beryl-manager [Not Installed]
beryl-plugins [Not Installed]
beryl-plugins-data [Not Installed]
beryl-settings [Not Installed]
emerald [Not Installed]
emerald-themes [Not Installed]
libemeraldengine0 [Not Installed]
libwnck18 [Not Installed]

Score is 71

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

hum well lets choose "yes" shall we??!? or humm well lets try "yes"

output:

No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]

uhh wait a minute?
humm what do i do at this point guys?

[dibl]

Re: problem with instaling beryl

red, if it's any consolation, my experience getting Beryl up and running was long (like a week) and clunky too, so don't feel like you're the only one. But for two weeks now it's been working great (well, "great" for a beta package, I guess).

I'm pretty noobie at Linux, but I don't think you're going to get success from a broken package ... :P

In my Adept Package Manager I find a total of 16 packages with names beginning "Beryl". If you can't see all 16, you need to play with the "apt-get update", apt-get upgrade", "apt-get clean" and all of those fun things, and then try to fetch updates again until you've got all 16 showing.

But, you do NOT need to install all 16. Here is the combination that is installed and working on my system:

beryl
beryl-core
beryl-dev
beryl-manager
beryl-plugins
beryl-plugins-data
beryl-settings
beryl-settings-bindings

That is all you need to have installed.

Today, I will try one that I see called "beryl-settings-simple". After all, it has been too long since I had to fix my system!



This is Intel motherboard and CPU, 32-bit Edgy generic, with Nivida video card.

Good luck.


EDIT: beryl-settings-simple is not an improvement, IMHO -- I'm staying with the full settings manager.

[monte48lowes]

Re: problem with instaling beryl

I had some issues with broken Beryl packages this last week as well. I solved the problem by uninstalling all Beryl packages using Adept. I then reinstalled them, and now it works. Give that a try.

Mike

[redhawk]

Re: problem with instaling beryl

it seems like im having trubble installing any packages. not just beryl..

i have 840 packages installed. i bet there are a few more im suppose i should be abel to "fetch"

[mchuskie]

Re: problem with instaling beryl

Redhawk: It looks to me like a network problem, either at your end or the ubuntu.beryl-project server end. Compare

Resolving ubuntu.beryl-project.org... 1.0.0.0

with

Resolving ubuntu.beryl-project.org... 64.15.154.150

No ideas for a solution, but I think this might be the problem.