Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I believe vi was included on the 1.4rc1 "live cd," but whether it was actually merged- 'emerge -s vi' or 'emerge -s vim' should do the trick.Foe the gentoo uses:I have installed 1.4 rc1 from the stage1 tarball. It came to stage3 fine. I have added it to an existing grub and all is working fine. I have this simple question that I don't seem to see addressed in the Gentoo docs or on the web site (probably because I don't recognize it when I see it): When installing Gentoo, I did an 'emerge sync', which resulted in many new entries in /usr/portage. When I did the 'emerge system' (and had a good night sleep) many things were built. But not everything in /usr/portage. OK. stage3 is a usable system. But should I have expected vi? Or do you only get nano at this point? Where can I see a list of what was actually installed by 'emerge system'? I see that I have many things left to install.
To see what portage stuck on there with emerge system (this also only works if you haven't added anything else, because then you get more than what emerge system put on) type 'qpkg.' If you don't have it, 'emerge gentoolkit' and you should.
edit /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask and stick hash marks over whatever you see in there and don't like (including kde-3.1rc*). Once it's unmasked, emerge kde should do it, not entire pathname. If that still doesn't do it, you need an 'ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~arch"' where "~arch" is x86, ppc, sparc, sparc64, or alpha). This gets all experimental software. If you only want to do that for KDE, though, doAlso, in the /usr/portage/kde-base directory, there are ebulid files for various versions of kde. I do not seem to be able to specify one. If I don't specify the version, I get 3.0.4, But if I want 3.1, I tried: emerge kde-base/kde/kde-3.1 I get a response that all parts of the package are masked. Meaning? I tried various versions of the command, including specifying the full path name of the ebuild file. All give the same result.
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge name_of_whatever
Once you do it the first time, it won't seem long anymore. I'm using the kde-cvs ebuilds (located at gentoo.org/~danarmak) so I don't really have the huge download everytime, and I then have up to the minute current KDE (delayed by a few hours from the compiler).(My wife keeps asking when she will be able to use the computer again. It is a fast one, but compiling kde (which had lots of dependencies as it is the first thing I am building) has taken 9 hours - and continues. The download link is fast.)
Bob Raymond
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