scrollkeeper and rarian

Randall Wood randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com
Thu Apr 10 02:38:19 PDT 2008


This would have all just magically worked if bug 7361 was fixed.

See http://svn.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/7361

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Randall Wood
<randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com> wrote:
> Everyone:
>
>  Recently, the GNOME developers wrote a replacement for scrollkeeper
>  named rarian. rarian is a drop-in replacement for scrollkeeper with
>  the advantage of continuing active development and support as well as
>  other under-the-hood improvements.
>
>  Unfortunately, it has caused some problems on MacPorts, in that rarian
>  and scrollkeeper conflict on our system. Here is a workaround:
>
>  1) make sure everything is update in the ports tree:
>
>  sudo port sync
>
>  2) determine the state of these ports on your system:
>
>  port installed rarian scrollkeeper
>
>  If everything is as it should be, you'll see this:
>  The following ports are currently installed:
>   rarian @0.8.0_0 (active)
>   scrollkeeper @0.3.14_6
>
>  or this:
>  The following ports are currently installed:
>   rarian @0.8.0_0 (active)
>
>  or this:
>  None of the specified ports are installed.
>
>  3) If you see anything other than those three statements, copy the
>  following command to a terminal window and run it:
>
>  sudo port -f uninstall scrollkeeper ; sudo port install rarian ; sudo
>  port activate rarian
>
>  NOTE: Once rarian is installed and active, scrollkeeper may be safely
>  removed at any time
>
>  --
>  Randall Wood
>  randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com
>
>  "The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes.
>  All the rest is just philosophy."
>



-- 
Randall Wood
randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com

"The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes.
All the rest is just philosophy."


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