Can't emerge compiz-fusion... [SOLVED]

[Darksurf]

everytime I try to emerge compiz fusion I get this reply

localhost / # KEYWORDS='amd64' emerge compiz-fusion
Calculating dependencies -
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "compiz-fusion" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- x11-wm/compiz-fusion-9999 (masked by: missing keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.

I tried emerge compiz-fusion and KEYWORDS='amd64' emerge compiz-fusion. all I get is this as an output.

I'm I really gonna have to edit the ebuilds to have a keyword in it??

[dave_p_b]

Hi

If you look at this link http://wiki.gentoo-xeffects.org/Compiz_ ... ing_compiz
and add the entries to /etc/portage/package.keywords it should work then.

All the best

Dave

p.s. There's no need to add the keyword to the link. The compiz-fusion ebuilds will work on amd64 architecture.

[wolfden]

(masked by: missing keyword)

Should of been your clue

[Darksurf]

oh yeah, your right. Sorry. I forgot about using package.keywords .

Anyway, Thanx for the help!

[CCR]

Boy did i run into trouble
Followed the guide emerging cairo and unmasking the compiz-fusion packages and so on..
And when it came to emerge compiz-fusion it stopped, telling me i should have emerged with other USE flags or something ??
Since i am a newbie in the Linux and Sabayon world... those lines could just have been hebrew or some other foreign language...hehehe
BUT....i decided to try and learn.... and after some reading i tried again this time with :
emerge --ask --newuse compiz-fusion
Voila' it seems to work.. Just thought i would post this if anyone else gets the same problem.

HMM.. now i saw that next problem is already here.... wrong version of bcop or something it says.
Well... i will have to try and solve that and get back to u all...if i do not have a nervous breakdown


/CCR

[CCR]

Problem solved
just had to emerge bcop-9999 and then emerge --newuse compiz-fusion again, whilst it continues where it hit the brake last time.
This is kinda fun

Now to the tricky part... how to follow the guide to get it to autostart.
Otherwise i perhaps could start it manually using Wolfdens command ??

/CCR

[navman]

reading material

http://wiki.gentoo-xeffects.org/Compiz_Fusion

[CCR]

Yes Navman that was the guide i was referring to and following
And might i add.. as can bee seen in my earlier post that guide does not work without some hitches.
However got the Compiz- fusion up and running by starting it manually.
Got a rotating cube without shadow.. and sometimes some other effects. Not much though, and top frame of windows disappears.
Guess it takes more than following a guide to get this working properly.

/CCR