On Monday 13 October 2003 12:07 pm, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Al, > > 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
Openoffice-bin will definately install faster (26 minutes on my box) but at the expense of some speed running the app later. Openoffice will take a l o n g time to compile. (according to my logs 37 hrs & 20 min) My box is an Athlon XP2100 with 512 Megs RAM > > >Alternatively, have a trawl through the online package listing on > > the gentoo website. > > How to make such a search, what command to use? > > >>>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! > > I tried follow; > > # emerge -p `cat mozilla` > cat: mozilla: No such file or directory. > > Whether it means mozilla not available. OR I made an incorrect > example > > >>>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. > > What command shall be used? I have all tarballs copied to > /usr/portage/packages/ALL/ > > Kindly advise. Thanks in advance. > > B.R. > Stephen > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
