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| 385044 | 2005-09-14 08:21:00 | Chill, I would certainly be interested in trying out the live cd version for you (and definitely for my own interest as well). I'm a bit tied up at the moment (should be at a meeting right now actually) and I have to go to Auckland this weekend. But I'd be keen to get into it next week. Regards John R |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 385045 | 2005-09-14 09:40:00 | John, If you have a few moments spare this weekend, Im always keen to meet other PF1'ers Drop me an Email *MyPF1Username*@orcon.net.nz |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 385046 | 2005-09-24 02:33:00 | Well, I've finally got Gentoo 2005.1 installed & running! :thumbs: What a mission; you are right Chill, it's not something to look forward to; but it's a serious challenge and a really good linux distro when it's up & running. I installed Debian Sarge fairly easily when I was disillusioned with the Gentoo install. But apt, while it is good, just does not stack up against Portage. Things I've learnt, would be; Compile your own kernel, as genkernel with that initrd thingy, just makes configuring Grub too difficult. If you want your network devices to work, don't forget coldplug (I don't know what the relationship could be here, but it worked for me). The documentation is excellent. Next thing get the sound working (I did a base kde install and I'm slowly adding to that. Plus I got Firefox up & going - what I'm using this minute). So thanks Chill & Tazz for your support, it was great :D |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 385047 | 2005-09-24 03:29:00 | Personally I USE="-arts alsa oss" everything. While OSS is depracted and Alsa is king, I still appreciate having support (esp in the kernel, emulating the OSS /dev nodes). Compiling your own kernel is not difficult at all and as you said MUCH easier setting up with GrUB. Not sure if its in the handbook, but I always: emerge appname -pv Dont forget you can: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge appname -pv that'll give you the latest and greatest version rather than whats marked as "stable". Dont forget to add the entry to /etc/portage/package.keywords if you want to emerge it. Ive just got another friend on to Gentoo this weekend. He installed it in a VMWare Trial, just to see what it was like coming from a Fedora background with his home server. He likes it so much he's about to ditch Windows for it :) As always, feel free to ask, we're here to help. Good on you for hanging in there and sticking it through! Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 385048 | 2005-09-24 04:24:00 | Chilling_Silence told me about using the 'emerge -pv whatever' command a while ago. However I have only just started using it fulltime about 2 weeks ago. The reason, it tells you what USE flags you need to emerge something successfully. These days most of my emerge commands look similar to this: USE="mp3 samba cups alsa -arts -kdeenablefinal" emerge whatever Ok its more typing, but I havent had any mucked up emerges doing it like that. I have been warned by others as well... even if it says to use arts; DON'T especially with kde (yes I changed again just to trial kde with Gentoo... highly stable, no crashes; so Im keeping it). |
Myth (110) | ||
| 385049 | 2005-09-24 05:16:00 | You're best using USE="" emerge %appname% -pv for testing. Edit /etc/make.conf and add: USE="-arts alsa" etc in there. emerge ufed if you need a hand picking/choosing. My USE flags: USE="sblive mjpeg gstreamer visualization quicktime a52 avi -ipv6 xinerama xine encode theora vorbis matroska ffmpeg dvd v4l X xvid sdl ogg xvmc vidix aac xmms rdesktop samba gphoto2 xscreensaver dvdr dvdread oggvorbis mpeg freetype httpd wxwindows xosd vcd wxgtk1 dts" |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 385050 | 2005-09-24 09:07:00 | A couple of really useful postings. I'm starting to get my head around a few concepts now. I emerged kdebase-startkde and I'm adding to it. But I can't get konqueror to function and I'm wondering if I should do an emerge kde -pv or could I get away with say, emerge konqueror -pv and set the USE flags as per your postings. Iknow, I should have used the -pv right at the start, but I'm only starting to understand it. (knowing is one thing understanding is another) |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 385051 | 2005-09-24 13:48:00 | Basically as soon as Ive done a stage3 install and booted it, I'll run: emerge kde -pv Then I set my USE flags in /etc/make.conf and run it again: emerge kde -pv If it suits my likings, then I just run: emerge kde This grabs ALL the non-development packages for KDE (So you get kdebase, kdelibes, kdeadmin, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdeartwork, kdeedu, kdegraphics etc etc) all done for you under the heading "kde". The kde package is a meta-package which consists of many smaller packages. Does this help? Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 385052 | 2005-09-24 21:00:00 | Very helpful thanks Chill. I've got konqueror working - a very useful (graphical) file management tool and not too bad as a web browser too. I think I was a bit hasty just going for kde base. I'll know better next time. :thumbs: |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 385053 | 2005-09-24 21:10:00 | One thing I have learnt with mucking round with kde and kdm (the login manager)... if you don't want to add kdm and would prefer gdm with kde.. emerge kde However if you want kde and kdm, you have to emerge kde-meta For some reason, if you emerge kde then try to emerge kdm, you end up with errors that such and such a file is blocking another file. This also happens if you emerge kdm first and then try to emerge kde |
Myth (110) | ||
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