On Wednesday 05 October 2005 23:39, billyd wrote: > I've been playing around with Gentoo 2005.1 trying to get it > installed using genkernel. I am a little beyond newbie with linux > but still in a steep learning curve. I am at the point in this > installation where I can start installing packages. The handbook > uses kde as an example. > > My question: Is there an order in which packages need to be > installed. For example, should x11-xorg be installed before kde? > > Thanks,
Then handbook part you are referring to means the packages from the packages iso. The correct command would be emerge --usepkg kde-meta (to use the binaries off the packages.iso). portage takes care of the dependencies of packages automatically, so it will install xorg-x11 before anything that needs it like kde. If you haven't done a networkless install (stage3, snapshot, packages.iso, no emerge --sync) it works the same way except it downloads and compiles things. So in short: no need for a special order, since portage/emerge takes care of the dependencies for you. Roger -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
