Feek's adventures with Linux

[Desmo]

Seem to have hit a problem. I go to download emerald but it just hangs...

james@james-laptop:~$ gksudo apt-get install emerald
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  fgfs-base simgear0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libemeraldengine0
Recommended packages:
  emerald-themes
The following NEW packages will be installed
  emerald libemeraldengine0
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 299kB of archives.
After unpacking 1348kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y

It doesn't go any further after I confirm to continue.


/edit... just noticed in that code above about removing some other uneeded stuff. Tried that and that just hangs too :/

[Mark]

So it doesn't even download the files?

Try

gksudo apt-get update

and then try again.

[Desmo]

Nope, it just hangs there. Doesn't seem to download anything. I'll try the update when I get home tonight

[Desmo]

Still no joy :/

[Daz]

Assuming you can browse the web ok, try using one of the gui tools. Synaptic is in System > Administration iirc.

[Desmo]

Got it installed via Synaptic in the end. Funny thing is is that if I now try it through terminal, it connects up and says the package is up to date. I tried downloading gDesklets with apt-get and that didn't work either. So, it seems some things are fine whilst others aren't. I also tried the apt-get autoremove this morning and that went through first time.

[Mark]

Wohoo! Compiz Fusion and Emerald successfully persuaded onto my Gentoo box. Thanks.

Dunno what Windows + e was supposed to do though - does nothing for me.

[Desmo]

Originally Posted by Mark

Dunno what Windows + e was supposed to do though - does nothing for me.

Funnily enough, I've just taken a screenshot of what it does. Check our the desktop thread, it's my middle picture.

[Mark]

I don't get any of the background effects either. I can tell I still have a lot of fiddling to do.

[Desmo]

Have you got the compiz settings manager installed?