Where can I download freetype2-lcd tarball

Question

Hi folks,
Archlinux 86-64 2007-08-2
Following;
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php
on searching I found
Location Category Name Votes Description Maintainer
unsupported lib freetype2-lcd 2.3.5-3 84 TrueType font rendering library (with custom LCD filter) eWoud
unsupported lib freetype2-lcd_ 2.3.5-1 8 TrueType font rendering library for LCD Displays sda00
But the links displayed here don't provide "freetype2-lcd" package.
On googling I found;
freetype2-lcd-2.3.5-13.1.src.rpm
and
freetype2-lcd-2.3.5-13.1.i586.rpm
on
http://download.opensuse.org/repositori … -13.1.html
But they are rpm packages NOT tarball.
Please advise where can I download a workable freetype2-lcd tarball
TIA
B.R.
satimis

Answer 1

Ramses de Norre wrote:
Did you extract the tarball? And you run makepkg without arguments.
tar -xzf freetype2-lcd.tar.gz
cd freetype2
makepkg -s
Thanks for your advice.  Still failed.
After extracting the tarball and cd freetype2-lcd
$ ls
PKGBUILD freetype-2.2.1-subpixel-disable-quantization.diff
bytecode.patch freetype-2.3.0-enable-spr.patch
freetype-2.2.1-enable-valid.patch freetype-2.3.3-ftbitmap.patch
freetype-2.2.1-memcpy-fix.patch freetype2-lcd.install
$ makepkg -s
==> Making package: freetype2-lcd 2.3.5-3 (Sat Feb 16 03:12:30 HKT 2008)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
==> ERROR: You do not have write permission to store downloads in /home/sources.
Aborting...
$ makepkg -s --asroot
==> ERROR: The --asroot option is meant for the root user only.
Please rerun makepkg without the --asroot flag.
$ su
Password:
#  makepkg -s
==> ERROR: Running makepkg as root is a BAD idea and can cause
permanent, catastrophic damage to your system. If you
wish to run as root, please use the --asroot option.
Edit-1:
#  ls -l /home/source
ls: cannot access /home/source: No such file or directory
I don't have this file.
Edit-2
On /etc/makepkg.conf
Comment out following line
#SRCDEST=/home/sources
$ cd /home/satimis/abs/local/freetype2-lcd
$ makepkg -s
==> Making package: freetype2-lcd 2.3.5-3 (Sat Feb 16 04:36:40 HKT 2008)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
-> Downloading freetype-2.3.5.tar.bz2...
--2008-02-16 04:36:40-- http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/freetype/f
reetype-2.3.5.tar.bz2
Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net... 66.35.250.203
Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net|66.35.250.203|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/freetype/freetype-2.3.5.tar
.bz2 [following]
--2008-02-16 04:36:41-- http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/freetype/fre
etype-2.3.5.tar.bz2
Resolving nchc.dl.sourceforge.net... 211.79.61.10, 2001:e10:5c00:1::10
Connecting to nchc.dl.sourceforge.net|211.79.61.10|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1279861 (1.2M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: `freetype-2.3.5.tar.bz2'
100%[=======================================>] 1,279,861 188K/s in 6.7s
2008-02-16 04:36:48 (186 KB/s) - `freetype-2.3.5.tar.bz2' saved [1279861/1279861
-> Found bytecode.patch in build dir
-> Found freetype-2.3.0-enable-spr.patch in build dir
-> Found freetype-2.2.1-enable-valid.patch in build dir
-> Found freetype-2.2.1-memcpy-fix.patch in build dir
-> Found freetype-2.2.1-subpixel-disable-quantization.diff in build dir
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
freetype-2.3.5.tar.bz2 ... Passed
bytecode.patch ... Passed
freetype-2.3.0-enable-spr.patch ... Passed
freetype-2.2.1-enable-valid.patch ... Passed
freetype-2.2.1-memcpy-fix.patch ... Passed
freetype-2.2.1-subpixel-disable-quantization.diff ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
-> bsdtar -x -f freetype-2.3.5.tar.bz2
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting build()...
PKGBUILD: line 29: patch: command not found
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
Aborting...
Edit-3:
$ sudo pacman -S base-devel
:: group base-devel (including ignored packages):
abs autoconf automake bin86 bison csup diffutils ed fakeroot flex gcc libtool m4 make patch
pkgconfig
:: Install whole content? [Y/n] Y
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets: csup-20060318-5 abs-1.0-1 diffutils-2.8.1-5 m4-1.4.10-3 autoconf-2.61-3 automake-1.10.1-2
bin86-0.16.17-3 bison-2.3-4 ed-0.8-3 fakeroot-1.9.2-1 flex-2.5.33-4 gcc-4.2.3-1
libtool-1.5.26-1 make-3.81-3 patch-2.5.4-4 pkgconfig-0.22-3
Total Download Size: 1.72 MB
Total Installed Size: 22.19 MB
It went throught w/o complaint.
$ makepkg -s
==> Tidying install...
-> Removing info/doc files...
-> Compressing man pages...
-> Stripping debugging symbols from binaries and libraries...
-> Removing libtool .la files...
==> Creating package...
-> Generating .PKGINFO file...
-> Compressing package...
bsdtar: Failed to open '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/freetype2-lcd-2.3.5-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': Permission denied
==> ERROR: Failed to create package file.
$ sudo makepkg -s
==> ERROR: Running makepkg as root is a BAD idea and can cause
permanent, catastrophic damage to your system. If you
wish to run as root, please use the --asroot option.
$ makepkg -s --asroot
==> ERROR: The --asroot option is meant for the root user only.
Please rerun makepkg without the --asroot flag.
I don't know how to proceed futher.  Make /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ accessible to all users ???  TIA
Edit-4 (PROBLEM SOLVED);
$ sudo mkdir /var/abs/local
Password:
$ sudo chown -R satimis:satimis /var/abs/local
No complaint
$ sudo nano /etc/makepkg.conf
Change;
PKGDEST=/var/cache/pacman/pkg
as
PKGDEST=/var/cache/local
$ cd /home/satimis/abs/local/freetype2-lcd
$ makepkg -s
==> Tidying install...
-> Removing info/doc files...
-> Compressing man pages...
-> Stripping debugging symbols from binaries and libraries...
-> Removing libtool .la files...
==> Creating package...
-> Generating .PKGINFO file...
-> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: freetype2-lcd (Sat Feb 16 06:05:10 HKT 2008)
Installation went through w/o complaint.
satimis
Last edited by satimis (2008-02-15 14:26:43)