Blender installation failed

[wolfden]

you can emerge specific versions by

emerge =media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070330-r1

[jmak]

Hi Eden,

Indeed, Blender installed without a hitch with the older version of ffmpeg.

Thanks,
jmak

[Ric]

I still can't
I tried an older ffmpeg, p2007033-r1 wasn't available for my system, so I backed up to p20070325-r1.
And I tried 'USE="sdl" emerge blender, still no luck ;
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/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/blender-2.44/work/build/linux2/lib/libbf_blenkernel.a
(writeffmpeg.o): In function `append_ffmpeg':
writeffmpeg.c:(.text+0xf7f): undefined reference to `img_convert'
/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/blender-2.44/work/build/linux2/lib/libbf_imbuf.a(anim .o): In function `IMB_anim_absolute':
anim.c:(.text+0xc89): undefined reference to `img_convert'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
scons: *** [/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/blender-2.44/work/build/linux2/bin/blende r] Error 1
*
* ERROR: media-gfx/blender-2.44 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 1647: Called dyn_compile
* ebuild.sh, line 988: Called qa_call 'src_compile'
* ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile
* blender-2.44.ebuild, line 94: Called die
*
* !!! Please add /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/blender-2.44/work/blender-2.44/scon s.config when filing bugs reports to bugs.gentoo.org
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if rele vant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/blender-2.44/t emp/build.log'.
*

I mentioned this on a Blender forum, I hope a fix is found soon.

[Ric]

I just read about entropy, so I tried 'binmerge blender' . But I doesn't seem blender is in Sabayon repositories yet. Where can I view Sabayon binary repositories?

[Fitzcarraldo]

^If you want to check if a particular package is available as a binary in Gentoo/Sabayon Linux, you can check using the Gentoo Online Package Database:

http://packages.gentoo.org/

Just enter into the Search box the name of the package you are interested in and all versions in Portage will be displayed. If there is a binary version in Portage then "-bin" will be appended to the package name. Here's an example for Mozilla Thunderbird:

http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=Thunderbird

Another way is to use Kuroo. Again, if you search for the package you are interested in and it has "-bin" as a suffix then there is a binary version available in Portage.

There are not that many binaries available in Portage because the philosophy of Gentoo/Sabayon Linux is to compile from source.

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EDIT: I've just noticed that you can enter wildcard characters when searching the Gentoo Online Package Database so, for example, you can enter "*-bin" (without the quotes) into the Search box and a list of all binary packages in Portage will be displayed.

[Eden]

I still can't
I tried an older ffmpeg, p2007033-r1 wasn't available for my system,

Its available for all systems, make sure you have sync'd properly

ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070330
-* alpha amd64 ~arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86 ~x86-fbsd

[Jogai]

• Make sure you have the dependencies described here installed
• Get blender
• Follow the instructions from the html document in the obtained package

I run blender without window frame:

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'/home/jogai/blender-2.44-linux-glibc232-py24-i386/blender' -W

It runs fine, but still there is one error:

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Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".

Anyone?

[Eden]

Why did you download it? its in portage.

portage tends to include patches to make it work better with your system.

[Jogai]

Because it didnt compile from portage. I'll wait for the 2.45 version of blender. Its a bugfix release so maybe its good then.
At the moment it runs faster and smoother than Vista, so i'm happy. I'm a little tired of configuring linux so i want to pick up my blender projects, so i chose the fast and relatively easy way.
I was surprised that it worked out of the box. I didnt know that linux could run applications this way.

[Ric]

I managed to emerge with a use flag omiting ffmpeg.