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

Tony Morehen tmorehen at ajm-software.com
Tue Jun 18 18:07:05 CEST 2019


Cedron, those dependency warnings occur all the time, just ignore them.  
They just mean that pacman is reordering its install list to take into 
account dependencies.

Don't bother downloading 18.04, it likely will need updates anyway.  
Just update your current install.  You'll wind up in the same place but 
the total download will be smaller.

Manjaro is a rolling installation so its iso's are always out of date.  
You should do an update after a fresh install

On 2019-06-18 10:17 a.m., Tony Morehen wrote:
>
> There is no problem here.  When you asked pacman to install gambas, it 
> found that your install needed to be updated and so started to do a 
> full system update.  System updates occur about once a month and are 
> generally ~300mb in download size. However, a recent update exceeded 
> 1gb, so I'm not surprised that your system needed a 1.2gb download.  
> BTW, there a often smaller updates between system updates, usually for 
> individual packages like Firefox, Chromium, Thunderbird etc
>
> I'd recommend updating your system before installing Gambas.
>
> Step 1(optional):  Reset your mirrorlist so that the fastest download 
> servers come first in the list.
>
> sudo pacman-mirrors
>
> This gives you a mirrorlist containing all manjaro mirrors, ordered by 
> speed.  You can limit that list to specific countries or region.
>
> pacman-mirrors --country-list
>
> sudo pacman-mirrors --country Germany,France,Austria
>
> Step 2:  Run a system update.
>
> sudo pacman -Syyu
>
> If you skipped updating your mirrorlist, you can use:
>
> sudo pacman -Syu
>
> Step 3: Install Gambas
>
> sudo pacman -S gambas3
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> On 2019-06-18 9:30 a.m., Peter Wiehe wrote:
>> 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 <mailto: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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