Thanks for your advice.
- snip -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
# find . -name 'openoffice*' -maxdepth 2 ./app-office/openoffice-bin ./app-office/openoffice
Then what command shall I issue to install them
1) emerge -k openoffice or 2) ./openoffice-bin
Alternatively, have a trawl through the online package listing on theHow to make such a search, what command to use?
gentoo website.
I tried follow;emerge -k package # try to use a precompile binary, or download and compileDuring 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!
# emerge -p `cat mozilla` cat: mozilla: No such file or directory.
Whether it means mozilla not available. OR I made an incorrect example
What command shall be used? I have all tarballs copied to /usr/portage/packages/ALL/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.
Kindly advise. Thanks in advance.
B.R. Stephen
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