On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 20:09, InfoHelp wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > >On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 17:11, InfoHelp wrote: > > > > > >>InfoHelp wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Nick Rout wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>In this case if you want a newer version it is time to rsync and emerge > >>>>the new version. Assuming it is a later version. what version do you > >>>>have at the moment? emerge -s ati-drivers to find out. > >>>> > >>>> > >>3.2.8-r1 > >> > >>this also told me that there was an "ati-drivers-extra 3.2.8-r1" > >>available but "[Not Installed]", so I've put that in - could it help? > >>(before I reboot to find out..) > >> > >> > > > >what do you mean "put that in"? > > > emerge - done. > > More startx efforts, with no luck. Not sure whether the ATI driver > version really is the problem yet - SuSE's XF86Config-4 run from Gentoo > starts Gnome, with some error boxes & no mouse. > > Hacking about with XF86Config ... > > >>>>There is no need to remove the previous version. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>* Sounds like I better emerge everything possibly needed off the > >>>packages CD first, & worry about X only after that's done. * > >>> > >>> > >>Is there an '#emerge *' or '--all' available, to save picking thru the > >>CD (binary packages = /usr/portage contents, right?) > >> > >> > > > >if you want all those packages then go for it. I got the impression you > >didn't want kde etc? > > > I have bones to pick with Gnome (laptop battery sensor), so I'm still > evaluating KDE too. > May yet settle there - esp if KDE incorporates Desktop Switcher program > icons like Gnome has!
Not sure what you mean by that? > > Have had a hunt, with binaries CD mounted on the gateway, but found no > Quanta or gFTP - did these end up somewhere handy? there are no such binaries. you will have to emerge them, its no big deal. > (= the one listed in > /usr/portage) They were the main extra things I needed. Anyone tested > chrootkit? Much value in running it? Anything else now? kppp?.. if you have kde you have kppp, kpp is part of kdenetwork, which is part of kde. > > "emerge -g quanta" falls over after trying to make kde > (KDE 3.2.1 is largely installed, but some items not - mostly those > "emerge -p kde" lists after kde-base.) "falls over" is not an error message. > Now with PORTAGE_BINHOST="http://192.168.0.254/mnt/cdrom/All"; (ok?) I wouldn't know, if you can wget a file from that address it will be right. Try it! (actually it is probably wrong, see below) > I > just get "unpack tuple of wrong size" The only post I found relevant to this on forums.gentoo.org showed a longer error message that said something about not finding the download site. so perhaps your url is wrong. Is there anything wrong with copying the contents of the cd to /usr/portage/packages and using emerge -k to install any that you want. It takes up some room, but you can safely delete them at any time. You still have the cd. > > Also, in a bash script file, how should CLI lines be ended? ";"?.. they do not need to be terminated at all, except in some structures, but you can end them with ; > (trying to automate Gentoo console mounting). > console mounting? what is it you are trying to do. > Cheers > > Rik
