Re: [gentoo-user] (Newbie)Emerge Problem
On Saturday 24 December 2005 15:19, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote: Hi Hi I am having problems with emerge working during installation. I have Pentium4 with HT PC, and tried to install gentoo-2005 twice, eveything was fine ,hardware was easily detected, but network did not work well with proxies. I did $export http_proxy=http://spsingh:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:3128 but links2, emerge do not work. they give error 407 Authentication required, that is connects to proxy server but cannot authenticate me. However I can links2 to internal webpages which do not require proxy. I had exactly the same problem and was not able to download the last stage after booting with the livecd. The solution I found (because I did not know the /etc/make.conf solution) was to give the proxy data like this : links2 -http-proxy http://blah.com:3128; you_url and when links2 launch, it open a dialog box (in text mode ;-)) to ask you for the username and password. That's the only way I found to download the stages, and now, I LOVE Gentoo ;-) Best regards Etienne -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge pb with vmware-linux-tools
Hello. Since my last portage update (like many other people), I got the error message Calculating world dependencies !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world I run emaint --check world and it told me this : 'app-emulation/vmware-linux-tools' has no ebuilds available Then, I do a emerge -s vmware-linux-tools : * app-emulation/vmware-linux-tools [ Masked ] Latest version available: 5.0.0 Latest version installed: 5.0.0 Size of downloaded files: 11,103 kB Homepage:http://www.vmware.com/ Description: Guest-os tools for VMWare workstation License: vmware Then I thought Oh yes, sure this stuff is not into the stable branch ! (and I'm not ~x86 because I'm a Gentoo newbie) I make also a emerge --info vmware-linux-tools to check but I saw this : ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 I don't understand then why it is masked... I search on the Gentoo portage documentation and put app-emulation/vmware-linux-tools into the /etc/portage/package.unmask file but after that, nothing changed :-( I have two questions : Why is it masked although ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86 ? How could I resolve my issue and make it unmasked for me ? Thank you :-) -- Etienne Hilson Alcatel Bell SA Customer Support Department Namur Office : +32 81 23 56 01 Mobile : +32 478 96 04 69 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge pb with vmware-linux-tools
Oooh please, don't fight because of my dumb questions :'( Actually, vmware-linux-tools is already installed. I just asked this question to know a little more about portage usage and manipulation. I followed your advices and added vmware-linux-tools ~x86 to the /etc/portage/package.keywords et voilà :-) Indeed, I'm running Gentoo inside VMWare. At work, the laptops are installed with a Windows xp image and there is no support if the basic installation is removed. But as I am not able to live and work without any linux distrib, I install VMWare and install fedora for my first linux experience, and after one year, I try Gentoo with much pleasure but also many questions ;-) Thank you very much for your help :-) Etienne On Friday 23 December 2005 14:28, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:18:52 -0600, Dale wrote: A lot of people say top-posting is bad too :-/ I top posted because the previous person did. I didn't want someone to get a sore neck, like mine. :( I put that in my reply too. Also requested no flaming but . . . . . You weren't flamed. Believe me, you'd have known if you were :) Maybe it felt warm because it is so cold here. It's hard to tell from reading print though. Which is why this sort of usage should never be recommended without suitable warnings. We agree on that. Even a well seasoned user shouldn't use it from what I have read. After all, there are better ways to do it. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- Etienne Hilson Alcatel Bell SA Customer Support Department Namur Office : +32 81 23 56 01 Mobile : +32 478 96 04 69 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
