kde3 sources available anymore & missing garbage collector

[David C. Rankin]

Guys,

I don't know if the kde3 sources still live on a server some where, but I
would be interested in finding them. I still have all the PKGBUILD files for
the kde3 install, but I need a few sources. kpdf for starters, and there are a
couple more.

Also, I successfully built quanta from AUR -- works fine, but I was unable to
build pdftk due to missing dependencies:

gcc-gcj package not found, searching for group...
error: 'gcc-gcj': not found in sync db
==> ERROR: Pacman failed to install missing dependencies.

I think that is some type of garbage collector. Anybody know where I can find
it? I have a couple of scripts that use pdftk so it is somewhat of a pressing
matter.

Other than the sound I'm still working on (haven't had time to mess with it),
the install is done. (Arch+e16+e17+openbox+kde4+full LAMP+GNU development
pkgs+full Office setup).

This was my sixth arch install since April. In the same time period I have
done "one" suse install (for my youngest daughter). Arch is such a damn good
distro it is a grand testament to some very smart thinking about how best to
put together and -- more importantly --> maintain a Linux distribution. The
folks on the suse list just can't explain why, with the abundant resources of
Novell in their pocket, little 'ole Arch is always 1-2 major versions of just
about everything ahead of them. (gotta love it!)

I -- can tell you why. Arch nailed it with the rolling release approach. That
is the right way to do a distro. Even if on occasion packages need to say in
testing for 30-90 days to accomodate a major kernel change/whatever, it still
beats the hell out of trying to maintain 3 separate versions of a an
opensource distribution, built for 3 different kernels, and the complete set
of some 4000 packages per distro version that need to be maintained. The
resources required to try and do that are staggering. (I needle them that
going to a rolling release would tripple their net revenues overnight just due
to cost savings alone ;-)

I'll try and cobble together my install notes after I'm done and update the
wiki in any of the areas I faced challenges. (I'm a bit tight on time at
present) Thanks you all for all the help needed in the areas where I got hund
up. Cheers!



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[Byron Clark]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 11:42:31PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:

> Also, I successfully built quanta from AUR -- works fine, but I was unable to
> build pdftk due to missing dependencies:
>
> gcc-gcj package not found, searching for group...
> error: 'gcc-gcj': not found in sync db
> ==> ERROR: Pacman failed to install missing dependencies.
>
> I think that is some type of garbage collector. Anybody know where I can find
> it? I have a couple of scripts that use pdftk so it is somewhat of a pressing
> matter.

gcc-gcj is available in the AUR:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=1638

--
Byron Clark

[darose]

On 11/08/2009 12:42 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I don't know if the kde3 sources still live on a server some where, but I
> would be interested in finding them. I still have all the PKGBUILD files for
> the kde3 install, but I need a few sources. kpdf for starters, and there are a
> couple more.

Not really.  Because I'm not sure that KDE3 can even build any more on
the current state/version of Arch's tools.  I know the Kdemod3
maintainer no longer can, and he was the last Arch guy who could AFAIK.
  (See:  http://chakra-project.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?pid=8271#p8271)

I also tried an experiment of grabbing the old Arch KDE3
sources/PKGBUILDs from out of our version control system and tried to
build them, but that failed too.  (Probably for the same reason as
kdemod3 did.)

That said, I may actually have the kde3 kpdf source somewhere, if you
really need it.  But I'm not sure why you would.  KDE3 is really pretty
much dead at this point, I'd say, and you're only going to cause
yourself lots of grief in the form of unsolvable problems, and zero
support available if you try.  I think you can still install and run the
kdemod3 binaries, but I think that's the best you're going to get out of
it these days.


> I -- can tell you why. Arch nailed it with the rolling release approach. That
> is the right way to do a distro.

A big +1 on that!

DR