[HOWTO] Compiz-0.5.2_pre20070509 overlay - Gentoo

[euskal]

first mentioning that you can also sync with gentoo-xeffects (http://wiki.gentoo-xeffects.org/) overlay, which provides compiz svn version, but I won't explain that because, it's already over gentoo xeffects wiki.

Well, big thanks to Sabayon Linux (http://www.sabayonlinux.org), a Gentoo based desktop oriented distro, that got it's name from an italian dessert :) :)


1º method:

cd /usr/local/portage
svn co http://svn.sabayonlinux.org/overlay sabayon


edit /etc/make.conf and add this line.

PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/sabayon"


Now unmask compiz and compiz-extra

echo ">=x11-wm/compiz-0.5.2_pre20070509 ~x86" >> /etc/
portage/package.keywords


ready to emerge!

emerge -uv compiz



2ª layman method

emerge -av layman

now you need to modify /etc/layman/layman.cfg

change the line: nocheck : no to

nocheck : yes


change the storage line to whichever you prefer, (I use
/usr/local/portage/layman instead of /usr/portage/layman/ to keep track of which is an official ebuild from Gentoo's and which's not.)

now add the overlay line on layman.cfg

overlays : http://svn.sabayonlinux.org/overlay

run:

layman -fa sabayon


as before

echo ">=x11-wm/compiz-0.5.2_pre20070509 ~x86" >> /etc/
portage/package.keywords

last one:

emerge -av compiz


additionally, you may want to emerge compiz-extra and compiz fusion, note that compiz-extra only succesfully compiled 3d plugin to me.

+info:
Sabayon forums (http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9436&highlight=&sid=1efaaf95f7dd7c7f565749fb53b2565e)
Gentoo overlays & layman guides (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds)