* On Jun 5 3:20, Andrew Gaydenko (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
Thanks! - I'll see them.
It is interesting, they are not present in the portage tree.
I find that odd myself, but at least they're very easy to install. Glad
I could help - I think you'll like those forums.
Tom
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* On Jun 5 1:51, Andrew Gaydenko (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
I have found Gentoo team uses phpBB forum app. OTOH, this app is
masked in portage:
phpBB has had a lot of security problems, but the Gentoo folk use a
highly modified version that fixes security issues and adds some
* On Jun 2 20:21, Mick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
What's the best way to find out what -meta packages exist
eix 'kde.*-meta'
and what they contain?
The KDE website is pretty good for that - see here:
http://kde.org/whatiskde/project.php#distribution
Tom
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* On May 31 16:28, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
This is - for me - an emergency. No pun intended.
Just a quick note in addition to the good advice given in the rest of the
thread. One of the Gentoo devs (I forget which, but I'm sure someone
knows) keeps a bunch of
* On May 27 11:29, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
At this rate, I'm inclined to recommend Kuroo to all of you. I've
been kicking the tires in on it, and it's really quite good.
I have a feeling that, given people who extensively discuss the merits of
esearch vs. eix, you're
* On May 27 11:40, Jason Weisberger (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
I figure upgrading to GCC 4.1.1 from 3.4.5 wouldn't be such a pain,
right? WRONG.
I wanted to give it a day or two of use before I commented, but I
recently upgraded to GCC 4.1.1 and rebuilt most of my system. I have
* On May 25 21:45, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
I'm learning Gentoo as fast and as much as I can!
Cool! I hope you like it as much as the others here - it's a great
system for a lot of uses.
I've fixed many problems by myself that you haven't heard about because
I
* On May 25 11:45, Lord Sauron (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
I've found (after much exploration) that there is a archive:
/portage-20060123.tar.bz2
This is just a remnant from when you installed Gentoo. You can delete
that file. Portage is already using uncompressed files under
* On May 16 21:38, Alexander Skwar (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
- Tabs
- Easy way to paste from clipboard (I'm not talking about primary
selection)
You can use multi-aterm for tabs if you want, though personally I see no
need to. You have 10 instantly-accessible tabs with screen,
* On May 16 19:03, JimD (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
Is there a good spam filter out there? One that is not a pain to setup
and use?
I'd recommend spamassassin.
I've tried all of the popular spam filters, including SA, dspam, and
bogofilter, including many of the plugins and smaller
* On May 9 19:33, Neil Bothwick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I
thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your
most/least favourite X terminals, and why?
I use aterm exclusively. It opens
* On Mar 21 12:43, Mauro Faccenda (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
If I use the synaptics driver, my touchpad stop working after starting
a GTK app (tried vmware, grkellm2, firefox). It doesn't occours when
I'm using a mouse driver for it. But I want to use some advantages in
synaptics
* On Feb 17 16:16, Neil Bothwick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
net.eth0 isn't actually failing when ifplugd detects no cable. It is
shown as inactive rather than stopped. You could try starting the
interface from /etc/conf.d/local only if eth0 is not active with
etc/init.d/net.eth0
* On Feb 17 9:46, Neil Bothwick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
Note that the latest baselayout supports ifplugd itself. You only need
to emerge ifplugd, you don't need to configure it or add it to a
runlevel.
I'm having a similar problem, and I'm using ifplugd via baselayout.
* On Feb 16 14:03, Nick Smith (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
# /etc/init.d/spamd start
* Starting spamd...
[18773] error: persistent_udp: no such method at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line
99 [ ok ]
I
* On Feb 6 12:34, Steven S. (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
Not that I know of. I believe you have to be root to use emerge. You
should be able to cat the ebuild and download the tarball yourself, you
could then run the configure and install scripts, giving it the
location of where
* On Feb 6 21:11, Christoph Eckert (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
did anyone notice RR4 Linux on
It's based on Gentoo and it has an hard drive installer; is it a cool
thing to get a base Gentoo installed?
I've used RR4 for quite a while as a LiveCD for installing (and
* On Dec 18 10:14, Jeff (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
Just to let you guys know, not that it means anything special, but WoW
works like a DREAM on Gentoo.
I know this isn't a help with the mouse pointer fix, but did you do
anything special to get WoW to run? I tried every patch I
I installed liboil 0.3.3 this morning, from an emerge sync done around
8:30 am EST, with no troubles. (As for the other reply - I use ccache as
well, so that's not it.)
emerge info attached.
Tom
* On Oct 12 19:52, Holly Bostick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
I've been trying to run an
* On Sep 21 16:44, Holly Bostick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
And you know, it just occurred to me-- isn't there a kernel option or
an
option somewhere that I can't remember right now, to enable or disable
auto-rebooting on severe errors/kernel panics, something like that?
[~] grep
* On Sep 2 20:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
seems that nobody likes FVWM
Hey, I use FVWM and love it, have for a long time ;) FVWM is small,
ultimately customizable, and can do everything any other WM can do, with
a bit of work. Virtually any dreamable interface is possible with it.
This
* On Aug 19 15:42, Sean Johnson (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
I'm pretty stuck on Plextor drives. I've found them to all be very
reliable, and will tend to read damaged disks that other drives choke
on.
Another strong recommendation for Plextor here. I've had my PX-712A for
a while
* On Aug 21 15:37, Volker Armin Hemmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
it has to, because all tests I read said, that Plextor burns a lot of
errors onto the dvds... so they have to have a good error-correction,
or they would not be able to read their own stuff.
Not sure I buy that. I've used my
* On Jul 24 15:46, Mark Shields (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
Any ideas?
All the comments about enabling 4G highmem are correct - the kernel can't
address a full gig without it. However, enabling this slightly slows
down your memory, and some people choose to keep it off for speed
* On Jun 19 15:32, Jean Magnan de Bornier (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
You might want to try qingy, if framebuffer works on this machine
cheers,
Another vote for qingy. I've been using it for a long time now, it's
very light, stable, and configurable, with no deps other than
* On Jun 18 20:41, timothy johnson (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
trying to play starcraft, got it installed but it installed it to
Program Files, now I have to get the the exe in a term but I cant seem
to cd to Program Files cause of the space. Any ideas on how to get
around this???
* On Jun 14 9:46, Heinz Sporn (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
2. Convert the information to a graphic format and use that as
background image. No browser is able to directly download background
images (in the moment).
Not true - any Mozilla-based browser can do it rather easily. On
* On Jun 13 16:42, Qian Qiao (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
As the title suggested, I've got a box with very limited disk space,
is it possible to sync only the packages currently installed and their
dependencies with the portage tree and leave out the rest?
I'll assume you're clearing
* On May 24 13:37, Mitko Moshev (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
Put -pipe in there too, it speeds up compiling (or so I've heard).
Right! I forgot -pipe, that one's good. Unless you have bad RAM that
you're trying to use as little as possible, or some such thing...
Right now I use
* On May 13 9:06, Mark Knecht (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
My world file is 235 lines long. How screwed up is that really? How
long it yours?
My world file is 135 lines, and I run a fairly minimalist desktop system
(no DE, just good ole fvwm). For a system with kde, gnome, and
* On May 13 20:30, Neil Bothwick (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
emerging kde, gnome and fluxbox instead of fvwm would oonly make the
world file two lines longer :)
If you only install the meta-ebuilds, that's true... Perhaps I should
have prefaced it with a 'YMMV', but if you have
* On Apr 29 13:06, Jose Moreira (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
Is this normal?
It's normal for an emerge -e system, yes, but you don't need to do that
for simply recompiling glibc.
Tom
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* On Apr 29 15:21, Jose Moreira (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
i think my sistem is a little messed up, because of locales:
Is your /etc/locales.build file correct? If you don't have all the
languages you want specified there, you'll be lacking some important
ones... (if some are
* On Apr 25 22:17, Devraj Mukherjee (gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org) wrote:
1. Emerge with a time delay, so that one can specify big emerge tasks
for say midnight for proper bandwidth usage etc. I know you can do this
with a combination of utilites (such as cron) but it would be neat to
have
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