Beryl have arrived to Debian !

megaprog · 11-25-2006, 01:23 PM

Now we the Debian users have Beryl at our own repositories, so no need anymore of downloading from other places...

So now installing Beryl is as easy as... (Only for Sid users by the moment)

Code:

# aptitude update

Code:

# aptitude dist-upgrade

Code:

# aptitude install beryl emerald

Code:

$ beryl-manager

We enjoy ! I hope you have a good time...

IMPORTANT: Don't forget you previously need to have installed your video card's drivers and configure your xorg.conf.

Any doubts don't play to ask. See you around.

The Seeker 11 · 11-25-2006, 01:44 PM

Code:

root@box:/home/gavin# apt-get install beryl emerald
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package beryl
root@box:/home/gavin#

No go for me, using Kanotix. I performed a dist-upgrade before trying the above command incidentally.

megaprog · 11-25-2006, 03:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Seeker 11

No go for me, using Kanotix. I performed a dist-upgrade before trying the above command incidentally.

What version are you using ? I said they are on the SID repositories, so add the sid repositories to the sources.list, and then install those packages, and don't forget quit those lines after installation.

Greetings.

The Seeker 11 · 11-25-2006, 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by megaprog

What version are you using ?

Kanotix = Debian Sid.

megaprog · 11-25-2006, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Seeker 11

Kanotix = Debian Sid.

mmm I see, well I bet it's because of the repositories, and maybe you have another architecture, I have i386, try to use Debian repositories to see if you find the packages.

yanik · 11-25-2006, 07:33 PM

megaprog, you might want to double check your /etc/apt/sources.list file. I suspect you have an unofficial repo in there. I also use debian sid and I can't find beryl. If you go to the official packages.debian.org site and search for beryl in the unstable repo it doesn't find it either.

Yanik

FredGSanford · 11-25-2006, 09:16 PM

Do you have to have the nVidia or ATI binaries installed, or can you use the 'nv' driver for X?

megaprog · 11-26-2006, 03:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yanik

megaprog, you might want to double check your /etc/apt/sources.list file. I suspect you have an unofficial repo in there. I also use debian sid and I can't find beryl. If you go to the official packages.debian.org site and search for beryl in the unstable repo it doesn't find it either.

Yanik

Here you go with my repositories:

Code:

##############
###  ETCH  ###
##############
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free


##############
###  SID   ###
##############
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free

here is the result of my search:

Code:

rafael@Debian:~$ aptitude search beryl
i   beryl                                                         - Compositing window manager, decorator and theme support - Beryl
i   beryl-core                                                    - Compositing window manager - Beryl Project
i   beryl-dbus                                                    - Dbus plugins for Beryl
i   beryl-dev                                                     - Development files - Beryl Project
i   beryl-manager                                                 - Tray application launcher tool - Beryl Project
i   beryl-plugins                                                 - Collection of plugins for Beryl
i   beryl-plugins-data                                            - Plugins data - Beryl Project
i   beryl-settings                                                - Plugin and configuration tool - Beryl Project
i   libberylsettings-dev                                          - Development files for plugin settings - Beryl Project
i   libberylsettings0                                             - Settings library for plugins - Beryl Project

Code:

rafael@Debian:~$ aptitude search emerald
i   emerald                                                       - Decorator for beryl
i   emerald-themes                                                - Package of themes for Emerald
i   libemeraldengine-dev                                          - Development files for emerald engines
i   libemeraldengine0                                             - Decoration engines for beryl

I hope this repositories works for you.

FredGSanford: Yes, you need the nvidia drivers, the generic drivers nv won't be enough to get nice results.

FredGSanford · 11-26-2006, 03:57 PM

Are you getting beryl from Sid repositories, than I have those in mine and searching still not showing beryl.

Thnx.

yanik · 11-26-2006, 04:18 PM

Code:

nixbox:/home/yanik# more /etc/apt/sources.list
#deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main


nixbox:/home/yanik#

Code:

nixbox:/home/yanik# apt-cache search beryl
nixbox:/home/yanik#

can't say what's going...

JackieBrown · 11-26-2006, 05:56 PM

I don't see it either, but I have noticed on the past days that the uploads to the mirrors seems to be happening in stages instead of all at once like before.

RobNyc · 11-27-2006, 04:53 PM

I'm using Parsix (Debian 4.0 aka Etch)
Do I need to install XGL first to run Beryl ?

nx5000 · 11-27-2006, 05:45 PM

No. Beryl has not arrived officialy in the debian repositories.
And it won't be with the next stable release.
Actually, its still work under heavy developpement.

JackieBrown · 11-27-2006, 06:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RobNyc

I'm using Parsix (Debian 4.0 aka Etch)
Do I need to install XGL first to run Beryl ?

No, AIGLX is built in to the Debian Xserver if you are running 7.1.

Under sections in your xorg add
AIGLX=1

eerok · 11-27-2006, 07:16 PM

Meh, I threw beryl on when I was checking out ubuntu. Then I shrugged, turned it off, and moved on to something else. All in all, I found it a bit annoying. But to each their own