Thus spake Stephen Liu: > 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
I'd imagine it would be emerge -k openoffice... have a look on the online package database at the descriptions of both. Will probably give a better indication. 2) should be emerge -k openoffice-bin I think > > >Alternatively, have a trawl through the online package listing on the > >gentoo website. > > > > > How to make such a search, what command to use? Unfortunately, there isn't a web based search. You can do: emerge search <searchterm> As another poster suggested (I didn't know this, but then I only started using gentoo on friday!). Once you know which section it's in, you can go and have a look on the website for more details, e.g. with sc, type: emerge search sc will give you a whole list of things with 'sc' in. In amongst these is app-office/sc, so go to http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/index.xml and click on app-office, then sc. This will give you a few details, including the developer homepage etc. In most cases, I think you can bypass the clicking by doing (e.g.) http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/app-office/sc.xml Actually sc is a lousy example as there a lot of things with sc in their name, so you'll get lots of results. In this case you might want to try emerge search sc | egrep '^\*.*\/sc$' or something like that. > > >>>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 My apologies, I obviously didn't explain myself well enough. Try this and see if it makes it any clearer: echo net-www/mozilla > mylist.txt echo net-www/w3m >> mylist.txt echo kde >> mylist.txt emerge -p `cat mylist.txt` Should say that it would install a whole lot of packages! then do: emerge `cat mylist.txt` and it'll go off and do it. The advantage of this is that you can prepare a whole lot of packages that you want it to compile and then leave it for a long time, rather than having to be at the computer or going back every hour or so. Get a nice long list of everything you want and then leave your computer to build it all over the weekend or whatever. > > >>>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/ emerge packagename where packagename is something like "kde" or "mozilla" or "app-office/sc" (without the quotes). Adding a -k before the package name will try and use a binary if it's available. In many ways this defies the point of gentoo though, as it's supposed to be a source based distribution (makes things run faster). Also, -k only installs binaries if they're available, otherwise it compiles from source. That's about all I can think of, if I've missed anything or said anything wrong, hopefully someone more knowledgeable will pick up on it and correct me. I think the key thing when you're installing gentoo (which hopefully I'll finish eventually!) is to be very very very very very very very patient. Hope that helps Al -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
