[gentoo-amd64] OpenOffice

2006-07-19 Thread Daniele Salatti
Hi list!! emerge --search openoffice show that openoffice is masked. Instead, there is an unmasked package called openoffice-bin. Does it mean that OOo doesn't compile on amd64? TIA, Daniele -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OpenOffice

2006-07-19 Thread PaulNM
Daniele Salatti wrote: Hi list!! emerge --search openoffice show that openoffice is masked. Instead, there is an unmasked package called openoffice-bin. Does it mean that OOo doesn't compile on amd64? TIA, Daniele Yes, in fact, if you do an emerge -p openoffice it will tell you it's masked

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OpenOffice

2006-07-19 Thread Daniele Salatti
PaulNM wrote: Daniele Salatti wrote: Hi list!! emerge --search openoffice show that openoffice is masked. Instead, there is an unmasked package called openoffice-bin. Does it mean that OOo doesn't compile on amd64? TIA, Daniele Yes, in fact, if you do an emerge -p openoffice it

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OpenOffice

2006-07-19 Thread PaulNM
Daniele Salatti wrote: PaulNM wrote: Daniele Salatti wrote: Hi list!! emerge --search openoffice show that openoffice is masked. Instead, there is an unmasked package called openoffice-bin. Does it mean that OOo doesn't compile on amd64? TIA, Daniele Yes, in fact, if you do an

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OpenOffice

2006-07-19 Thread Jan Jitse Venselaar
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 09:19, PaulNM wrote: For posterity, since my AMD64X2 was not on earlier: Optimus ~ # emerge -p openoffice These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy openoffice have been masked. !!! One of

[gentoo-amd64] Re: OpenOffice

2006-07-19 Thread Daniele Salatti
Jan Jitse Venselaar wrote: On Wednesday 19 July 2006 09:19, PaulNM wrote: For posterity, since my AMD64X2 was not on earlier: Optimus ~ # emerge -p openoffice These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy openoffice

[gentoo-amd64] 32bit session

2006-07-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
Hi, Is it poss. to start a 32bit session so the whole desktop is 32bit? Gavin. -- Dr Gavin Seddon Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road M13 9PL UK -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 32bit session

2006-07-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
Dear Duncan, thanks. This appears a mission. I will have to reinst. Gentoo and create a 32 partition. Can you recommend a url of howto proceed thence. Gavin. On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 11:57 +, Duncan wrote: Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 32bit session

2006-07-19 Thread Simon Stelling
Gavin Seddon wrote: Dear Duncan, thanks. This appears a mission. I will have to reinst. Gentoo and create a 32 partition. Can you recommend a url of howto proceed thence. How about the handbook? You installing Gentoo after all... http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml --

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 32bit session

2006-07-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
This is for installing on a machine. How would I catenate this to a chroot? Gavin. On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 14:17 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: Gavin Seddon wrote: Dear Duncan, thanks. This appears a mission. I will have to reinst. Gentoo and create a 32 partition. Can you recommend

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 32bit session

2006-07-19 Thread Jose Herrera
In fact the whole gentoo setup involves chroot.just don't do the machine parts: partitions,mkfs,grub,fstab and of course the reboot ;)Jose.2006/7/19, Gavin Seddon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:This is for installing on a machine.How would I catenate this to a chroot?Gavin.--

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 32bit session

2006-07-19 Thread Will Briggs
Google amd64 32bit chroot gentoo and you find: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1chap=2 There is a great deal of overlap with the install docs -- especially if you want to be able to boot to the chroot as a dual-boot and therefore will need to build 32-bit kernel

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 32bit session

2006-07-19 Thread Gavin Seddon
Of course, Thanks for highlighting my idiocy. Gavin. On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 08:40 -0400, Jose Herrera wrote: In fact the whole gentoo setup involves chroot. just don't do the machine parts: partitions,mkfs,grub,fstab and of course the reboot ;) Jose. 2006/7/19, Gavin Seddon [EMAIL

[gentoo-amd64] rmvb converter

2006-07-19 Thread Mark Haney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there an rmvb to AVI/MPEG converter out there for linux? - -- Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OpenOffice

2006-07-19 Thread Dmitri Pogosyan
In general, when you see masked package in 'emerge --search', whether you can use it or not depends on how it is masked. If it was ~amd64, meaning it is in testing stage, you could compile it and probably be happy, but openoffice is -amd64, which means it does not work. Unfortunately 'emerge