[arch-general] Trinity Running on Arch Linux!

[David C. Rankin]

On 02/16/2011 11:35 AM, Thomas S Hatch wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:32 AM, David C. Rankin <
> drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Guys,
>>
>>  It works! After building kdebase (and fighting with other modules), I just
>> decided to start trinity and see if it would work. Changed ~/.xinitrc to
>> 'startkde' and then typed 'startx' and:
>>
>> http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/trinity-first-run.jpg
>>
>> http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/trinity-running_01.jpg
>>
>>  (this is running in a clean virtualbox Arch install)
>>
>>  There is still work to be done, because all modules have not yet been
>> ported
>> to CMake, but for a proof of concept for the PKGBUILDs on Arch -- a
>> complete
>> success. I'll bring the wiki up to date later today, but it already
>> contains the
>> PKGBUILDs that will build Trinity into a working desktop with a single
>> [very
>> 'Quick & Dirty'] build script called 'bldtrin.sh' (for development purposes
>> only). For those interested. See the wiki:
>>
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trinity
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>>
> 
> This is awesome! Thanks David! I will have to try this out, Trinity will
> practically be a lightweight desktop compared to KDE4!
> 

Thanks all,

	I've solved an initial library issue I had running trinity. (some idiot "Me"
left options=(!libtool) set in kdelibs) Rebuilding with libtool fixed everything :)

http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/trinity-running_02.jpg

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.