[Gambas-user] My incomplete Manjaro Install - Need expert help

Peter Wiehe peter.wiehe2 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 18 16:30:13 CEST 2019


Sorry, can't help much. Except this: Ask in the Manjaro forum, perhaps?
Maybe there are experts for this Manjaro problem?
(My Manjaro and Gambas works fine.)
If that fails, Linux Mint is not bad, too.

Kind regards
Peter Wiehe

Cedron Dawg <cedron at exede.net> schrieb am Di., 18. Juni 2019 15:51:

> My Manjaro install went smoothly until it didn't.  Took longer than
> expected too.
>
> First, perhaps a bad sign, the download server was down for maintenance,
> so I waited a bit.  (After midnight I can download without data metering.)
> It came back, so I downloaded the iso.  Took a while, I'm on satellite
> internet.  Copy iso to usb drive, then to locol server.  My old trusty iso
> installer failed with the newer Manjaro.  Found an alternative one, USB
> ready.
>
> Booted from USB.  Worked fine, played around, went for install.  Went
> smoothly.  Reboot from install.  Worked fine.  Did some settings.  Looked
> at some photos to set the background.  Used the "Set as background" option
> on the image viewer, nothing.  There's a glitch, another bad sign?
>
> So, I set the background with the settings and do a web search.  Yep, that
> option doesn't work in Manjaro.  Not a big deal.
>
> Install Gambas by going to command line and "sudo pacman -S gambas3" per
> the wiki:
>
> http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/install/archlinux
>
> A bunch of stuff scrolls by.  I start Gambas, it works, I close it.  I go
> to copy some files from my other partition to work with.  Try to start
> Gambas, nothing.  Try to unintall, reinstall, some other stuff, don't
> remember it was really late.  Go to bed.
>
> This morning, lacking some sleep, I try again.  Still doesn't work.  Go to
> the command line:
>
> gambas3.gambas
>
> Get a message something like GLIBC29.0 is required by gbx ....
>
> Okay, research the issue.  Pretty common, but none of the fixes work.
> Okay, fresh image, yet not up to date?  Another bad sign?
>
> Fine, at this point I am ready to give up on Manjaro and try Mint Xcfe.
> This means another large download, so I'll have to wait till tonight.  In
> the meanwhile, I do a fresh re-install of Manjaro.
>
> This time I try to install Gambas using the Add/Remove Packages option.
>
> I find it (Gambas3-IDE), mark for installation, and get a pop up that says
> this:
>
> Warning: dependency cycle detected:
> Warning: bashrc-manjaro will be installed before its bash dependency
> Warning: dependency cycle detected:
> Warning: harfbuzz will be installed before its freetype2 dependency
> Warning: dependency cycle detected:
> Warning: libglvnd will be installed before its mesa dependency
> Warning: dependency cycle detected:
> Warning: x264 will be installed before its ffmpeg dependency
> Warning: dependency cycle detected:
> Warning: usbmuxd will be installed before its libimobiledevice dependency
> Warning: dependency cycle detected:
> Warning: lib32-harfbuzz will be installed before its lib32-freetype2
> dependency
> Warning: dependency cycle detected:
> Warning: lib32-keyutils will be installed before its lib32-krb5 dependency
> Warning: dependency cycle detected:
> Warning: lib32-libglvnd will be installed before its lib32-mesa dependency
>
> Okay, hit the [close], then press [Apply] anyway.  It comes up with a list
> of packages to remove, and those to install, and the download will be 1.2G.
>
> That doesn't make sense.  So, I cancel, and here I sit.
>
> Any ArchLinux/Manjaro users out there that can tell me what to do next?
>
> Yes, the Mint Xcfe option is still on the table.
>
> Ced
>
>
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