Hello Gentlemen, Thank you for your responses, I do apologize for the inconvenience. So all I have to do is modify /etc/make.conf by adding mysql and emerge libdbi. I do not need to install mysql server, this machine only needs mysqlclient. Thanks again for your help.
Nick On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Montag 28 September 2009, Nick Khamis wrote: > > Hello Everyone I am new to gentoo, usually I use Debian. I have a fresh > > install x86 2.6.30 kernel and I was trying to get Ultramonkey going on > the > > box. I looking for the equivilant to the following deb packages for > Gentoo > > please > > > > * libdbi-perl > > * libdbd-mysql-perl > > * libmysqlclient14-dev > > > > If you feel that there is anything else I need to know about getting > > Ultramonkey working on Gentoo please let me know. > > > > Thanks In Advanced, > > Ninus > > > > emerge -s lbdbi > > * dev-db/libdbi > Latest version available: 0.8.3 > Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] > Size of files: 1,035 kB > Homepage: http://libdbi.sourceforge.net/ > Description: libdbi implements a database-independent abstraction > layer in C, similar to the DBI/DBD layer in Perl. > License: LGPL-2.1 > > emerge -pv libdbi > > [ebuild N ] dev-python/egenix-mx-base-3.1.2 7,976 kB > [ebuild N ] dev-db/postgresql-server-8.4.1 USE="nls perl python xml > -doc > (-selinux) -tcl -uuid" LINGUAS="de -af -cs -es -fa -fr -hr -hu -it -ko -nb > -pl > -pt_BR -ro -ru -sk -sl -sv -tr -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB > [ebuild N ] virtual/postgresql-server-8.4 0 kB > [ebuild N ] dev-db/libdbi-0.8.3 USE="-doc" 1,036 kB > [ebuild N ] dev-db/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3 USE="postgres sqlite sqlite3 - > bindist -doc (-firebird) -mysql -oci8" 1,499 kB > > > > you see, mysql is an useflag for libdbi. So all you have to do is set the > useflags and emerge libdbi. > > And for the future, please read the documentation. Almost everything is > covered in it. > >
