Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: > On Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:27:47 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> LXDE on the menu item Preferences ===> Desktop Preferences >> Nothing can be set there and it does not even show a dialog >> box... just an error messages that says: >> >> Desktop manager is not active >> >> All the lxde-base pkgs contained in lxde-meta are installed. >> >> Openbox wm is installed. >> >> Anyone know what that error message means or how to get around or fix >> it? > > You're missing an essential package. Install lxde-meta to make sure you > get it. Once working, you can remove unnecessary packages later.
That sounded like a plan until I actually tried to re-install lxde-meta. I found no way to make emerge do that. I thought by adding such things as --deep --newuse --changed-use it would cause a reinstall But emerge just closes and tells me nothing is outated in lxde-meta Example: # emerge --deep --newuse --changed-use -v lxde-meta These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB And that is also with bdeps=y from my make.conf EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y" After browsing thru `man emerge' a couple of times It appears there is not some kind of `force' flag. Is there some combination of switches that will cause emerge to re-install lxde-meta? Or baring that I thought I'd try emerging individual pkgs... but there not exactly easy to find ebuilds of.. I still haven't Also ran into a wall trying to use the regular tools like qlist to determine what is in there. I found the list after search a while on google but I'm curious why `qlist' doesn't list off what is in there, like it does in all other cases.
