Thus spake Stephen Liu: > >>Kindly advise. Thanks in advance. > >> > >> > > > >emerge package # download and compile > > > > > How can I know they are available on net/website
If you know the name of the package, have a look in /usr/portage with find, e.g. cd /usr/portage find . -name 'rolo' -maxdepth 2 find . -name 'openoffice*' -maxdepth 2 Alternatively, have a trawl through the online package listing on the gentoo website. > > >emerge -k package # try to use a precompile binary, or download and compile > > > > > During installation of Gentoo OS, I have encountered difficulty on running > > # emerge -k kde > and > # emerge -k xfree > > Each took 2+ hours respectively without completion compelling me to > reboot the PC. The download time was short but the installation time > was endless with screen running continuously. There probably aren't any binaries available for you system or something, so it's compiling from source. This takes a LONG time! I'm currently installing qt, kde and a few other bits and bobs on my fairly fast PC... it's taken 2 hours so far and I don't expect it to finish for a while. Write a list of what you want to install, save it in (say) emergenext.txt, then do emerge -p `cat emergenext.txt` check the results, then do the same without the -p. Then go home for the weekend. You never know, it might be done! > > >Root installs, user runs. > > > > > Where shall I untar the tarball, on which folder? Will installation > find the right folder automatically. Don't. Let portage do the work. Just use emerge. Hope that helps, Al -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
