HOWTO: installation of e17 from SVN code

[Rui Pais]

It works now thanks guys
but i see not to have any programs to go with it form enlightment compared to genome or kde i guess. I happy with it hough still can use the old apps so im okay

Glad to know you get work!


Please note that i tried to reduce the e applications to the minimum to avoid stability issues (as you may imagine, apps done for libs/environment with api code not frozen may suffer extra instability as the base code evolves).
You can install extra apps anytime by editing the conf file at /etc/easy_e17.conf


All other applications can of course be installed with apt/synaptic.

[nemlah]

Thanks a lot for the work done. Worked very nice..

Is there a list with the state of the different modules right now. I would like to add some to the installation, can't find uptodate info on their stability though

Thanks again

[SuperBo]

Before the installation, My disk had 2.2 GB space left. But after install & remove, now it only has 1.8 GB space left. Although I deleted /var/cache/e17_src.

[Rui Pais]

Thanks a lot for the work done. Worked very nice..

Is there a list with the state of the different modules right now. I would like to add some to the installation, can't find uptodate info on their stability though

Thanks again

Hi nemlah, glad you like it

I'm not sure but i think by modules you mean other e17 apps (eapps like some call it) and not the modules itself...
anyway, unfortunately there's no place with such a list, at leaste that i know.
You can try e17 mail lists i think... and you can check this thread, i usually put info when thinks broken (the ones installed by e17-svn usually get fixes in a few hours...) and cafelinux forum it's another place very e17 focus, me or Aubrey usually put alerts on code breakage.

You can check whats going on code here:
http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/browser (browse trunk)

Anyway, remember that it's all installed in /opt/e17 so it's very easy to either clean as make backups.
If you are interested you can try oz-e17-tools that have a nice e17 backup tool.

hope that helps somehow...

[Rui Pais]

Before the installation, My disk had 2.2 GB space left. But after install & remove, now it only has 1.8 GB space left. Although I deleted /var/cache/e17_src.

Yes, that's normal. Source code it's big (looks even bigger on SVN), around 0.5G with easy_17.sh version of e17-svn.
Original morlenxus version gives you the full trunk source with more ~250M.

If you want you can remove it. And update only after some large periods of time (1, 2 months)...
Or maybe save/compress code tree, on /var/cache/e17_src, to a pen or external disc...

[Tux Aubrey]

Thanks Rui!

I have updated the related OzOS "How to" HERE and tested it on a clean 32bit install of Xubuntu 8.04.1. Everything went as expected except for an error installing the b_and_w theme right at the end of the build - apparently the ~/.e/e/themes directory had not been created first (it was there at the end of the install, but empty). This is a very minor "bug" and I'm pretty sure the next time I update e17 it will install correctly.

Your backup and update scripts make this a "bullet-proof" but still bleeding edge e17 install!

[baphomet420]

Thanks Rui!

I have updated the related OzOS "How to" HERE and tested it on a clean 32bit install of Xubuntu 8.04.1. Everything went as expected except for an error installing the b_and_w theme right at the end of the build - apparently the ~/.e/e/themes directory had not been created first (it was there at the end of the install, but empty). This is a very minor "bug" and I'm pretty sure the next time I update e17 it will install correctly.

Your backup and update scripts make this a "bullet-proof" but still bleeding edge e17 install!

I had the same problem, looked into it, its a stray line in the easy e17 script... it removes the source files directory for b_and_w just before it tries to compile...

[elli222]

hi!
Im using the original easy_e17 script version 1.20 and i cant compile eyesight for some reason, i taught someone here might be able to help,

error in script...

- eyesight ................... ERROR!      
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----------------------------------- Last loglines ------------------------------
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../..  -I../.. -I../../src -I../../src/bin -DPACKAGE=\"eyesight\" -DPACKAGE_DATA_DIR=\"/opt/e17/share/eyesight\" -DPACKAGE_PLUGIN_DIR=\"/opt/e17/lib/eyesight/plugins\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/opt/e17/share/locale\" -Wall -Werror -g -I/opt/e17/include -I/opt/e17/include/efreet   -I/opt/e17/include   -MT error.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/error.Tpo -c -o error.o error.c
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
error.c: In function ‘append_startup_error’:
error.c:17: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘malloc’
error.c:17: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘malloc’
error.c: In function ‘append_startup_error2’:
error.c:28: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘malloc’
error.c: In function ‘display_startup_error_dialog’:
error.c:54: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘calloc’
error.c:54: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘calloc’
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
main.c: In function ‘main’:make[3]: 
*** [error.o] Error 1
main.c:27: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘setlocale’
main.c:27: error: ‘LC_ALL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
main.c:27: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
main.c:27: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[3]: *** [main.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/elliot/e17_src/PROTO/eyesight/src/bin'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/elliot/e17_src/PROTO/eyesight/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/elliot/e17_src/PROTO/eyesight'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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-> Get more informations by checking the log file '/tmp/easy_e17/install_logs/eyesight.log'!

gonna try clearing my system of e17 and reinstall...

NOTE: ignoring errors isnt an option, and nor is skipping packages...

[Tux Aubrey]

I had the same problem, looked into it, its a stray line in the easy e17 script... it removes the source files directory for b_and_w just before it tries to compile...

Great! Thanks for the info - I'll pass it on to Rui.

Others (and me) are also reporting errors when we try to do an update - but these seem to be on svn rather than in the scripts. The errors are "fatal" to the update but don't cause problems with a good install.

[whyette]

I am running into a problem with the install. It seems to be a problem with dpkg, and now I can't install anything via comline.

I get an error that there's a 404 error when updating sources.

 sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up e17-svn (0.9.4) ...

--------------------------- Easy_e17.sh 1.2.0.4-OzOS ---------------------------
  Developers:      Brian 'morlenxus' Miculcy
                   David 'onefang' Seikel
  Contributors:    Tim 'amon' Zebulla
                   Daniel G. '_ke' Siegel
                   Stefan 'slax' Langner
                   Massimiliano 'Massi' Calamelli
                   Thomas 'thomasg' Gstaedtner
                   Roberto 'rex' Sigalotti

----------------------------- Current Configuration ----------------------------
  Install path:    /opt/e17
  Source path:     /var/cache/e17_src
  Source url:      http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk
  Logs path:       /tmp/easy_e17/install_logs

  Packages:        eet evas ecore efreet embryo edje epsilon esmart emotion etk etk_extra ewl exml enhance e_dbus e entrance edje_editor edje_viewer elicit elitaire emphasis empower emprint ephoto estickies exhibit expedite exquisite extrackt e_phys enthrall rage alarm bling calendar cpu deskshow efm_nav efm_path emu execwatch flame forecasts iiirk language mail mem moon mpdule net news notification penguins photo rain screenshot slideshow snow taskbar tclock tiling uptime weather winselector wlan b_and_w
  Skipping:        esmart enhance exml imlib2 edb scrot edje_editor edje_viewer emotion entrance eclair evfs evolve elicit elitaire emphasis empower engycad entrance_edit_gui entropy ephoto estickies expedite exquisite extrackt engage enthrall rage emu flame moon news penguins rain snow language photo efm_path efm_nav e_phys execwatch mpdule notification 

  Script action:   install
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-------------------------------- Build phase 1/3 -------------------------------
- running some basic system checks
- source checkout/update
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------------------------------- Basic system checks ----------------------------
- creating script dirs ....... ok
- 'automake' available ....... ok
- 'gcc' available ............ ok
- 'make' available ........... ok
- 'svn' available ............ ok
- build-user ................. root
- adding path to env ......... ok
- checking lib-path in ldc ... ok (/etc/ld.so.conf.d/e17.conf)
- setting compile options .... ok
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----------------------------- Source checkout/update ---------------------------
- updating sources (please wait, this won't output much) ...
Checking eet source ... svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/e/!svn/vcc/default'
svn: REPORT of '/svn/e/!svn/vcc/default': 400 Bad Request (http://svn.enlightenment.org)

Any ideas? It makes me run dpkg --configure -a whenever I want to install anything.