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 Newbie question: Precompiled packages Hi, I've just installed Gentoo linux from Basic cd and stage3. And after alot of compiling and downloading my system boots and seem to work fine... However, now I would like to install KDE and some apps, i.e. gftp, konqueror. What emerge command do I have to use? I've read on some tutorials that I need a GRP stage3 setup, but some tutorials says that the only thing I need is to add an "-k" to the emerge command. What's the right thing to do. I have downloaded the 2 LiveCD ISO's can I use these? Regards Espen      |
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02-21-2008, 05:46 AM
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| Re: Newbie question: Precompiled packages Espen Lorentzen wrote: > Hi, I've just installed Gentoo linux from Basic cd and stage3. And after > alot of compiling and downloading my system boots and seem to work fine... > > However, now I would like to install KDE and some apps, i.e. gftp, > konqueror. What emerge command do I have to use? I've read on some tutorials > that I need a GRP stage3 setup, but some tutorials says that the only thing > I need is to add an "-k" to the emerge command. What's the right thing to > do. > > I have downloaded the 2 LiveCD ISO's can I use these? > > Regards > Espen > > Sure you can...there are some things on the 1st LiveCD (like XFree), but lots of others on the 2nd. Just insert that CD and type: # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom # cp -a /mnt/cdrom/packages/* /usr/portage/packages/ Then, when you "emerge -k <packagename>", gentoo will first check wether you have the binary in the /usr/portage/packages folder before attempting to download anything from the net  Pedro |
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02-21-2008, 05:52 AM
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| Re: Newbie question: Precompiled packages > > if you do > emerge -kp <packagename> > first, it will tell you which packages are binaries and which are ebuilds > (sources to be compiled). -p is pretend, btw, and it's a good idea to use > -p before you emerge for real to see what's going to be done. > > Make sure you have a recent CD, otherwise the binaries will be out of date > (slightly) and it will choose ebuilds instead (you can overrride this by > specifying the version when you use emerge if you like) > > HTH Or use -K (caps forces portage to use any binaries found rather than "possibly" use them). Especially useful as the portage tree gets updated so often. ;D |
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