Firebird XFT + GTK2 without Gnome


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I've got a stage 1 compile of Gentoo running on my system and I only installed KDE, I didn't plan on using Gnome at all, so I didn't install it. Once I got KDE and X all configued, I emerged FireFox and Gaim. Neither of them run. I'm thinking this is because the GTK and GTK2 libraries never got installed. So far I haven't been able to find which package I need to emerge to get these working. You'd think things like this would show up as dependancies. Anyone got any help. Would this have anything to do with me specifying -gtk -gnome in my USE flags? Any help would be appreciated.

Edit: when I try to run gaim and firefox from the command line, I get "[1]+ Illegal Instruction gaim" And then it returns me to the prompt.

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Been awhile since I've used Gentoo, however, I would remove the gtk flag when doing the emerge for Firebird. If you plan on using GTK-based apps, you will need to install GTK. Mind you, this shouldn't install the entirety of Gnome, but you will have a few packages that'll need doing.

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I'd think emerge should have installed all libs and programs required by Firebird (sure you don't mean Firefox?) and GAIM, including GTK. That's kind of the whole reason it exists.

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Emerge should have installed all libs and programs required by Firebird (sure you don't mean Firefox?) and GAIM, including GTK.

Actually yea, I meant FireFox 0.8. And you have to remember I've got -gtk -gtk2 -gnome in my use flag.

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My buddy has some weird little laptop, he's not running KDE or Gnome <He calls them both bloatware :laugh: hes using some other little one) , but he compiled some of the gnome libraries just for reasons like yours. I know he has gAIM working fine

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My buddy has some weird little laptop, he's not running KDE or Gnome <He calls them both bloatware :laugh: hes using some other little one) , but he compiled some of the gnome libraries just for reasons like yours. I know he has gAIM working fine

He's probably running Fluxbox or XFCE or something similar. Is he using Gentoo for a distro?

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I use fluxbox and If you have the gtk/2 libraries installed you can use gtk/2

Not sure if I do or not. Any way I can tell for sure?

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Well, I was holding off on emerging firefox and gaim on my main machine until I could make sure it would work on my 2nd box. Everything went fine on my main machine though, so now I'm just wondering whats up with my 2nd box.

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i think that error may have something to do with you installing gentoo on a machine it wasn't designed for...

i.e. Pentium class distro on a Athon class machine

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i think that error may have something to do with you installing gentoo on a machine it wasn't designed for...

i.e. Pentium class distro on a Athon class machine

I don't think that is possible considering I used an x86 LiveCD and when you emerge (which I did with both Gaim and FireFox) it compiles it with your machine (specifically for your archetecture).

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I don't think that is possible considering I used an x86 LiveCD and when you emerge (which I did with both Gaim and FireFox) it compiles it with your machine (specifically for your archetecture).

i dont know really, i just read that somewhere and someone had a similar error to yours.

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