Installing portage on other distros, easier than ever

jago25_98 · Apprentice Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 180

I believe there's a better way to do this now somewhere. Where would be an updated guide to that?

Oh, and I should add that a simpler way to do this is to dual boot (what filesystems could you share? /tmp/ /home/ ...?) and chroot to run things. One way could be to have 2 programs (perhaps 2 menu's in x) to launch things from as different users in different roots.

eeek · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 54

My 'testing'/workstation setup uses Archlinux at the moment-so please don't flame me-

Might someone care to give their 'real world' experience with a snafu that's crept up? It looks like it's a GCC version conflict error- My personel suspicition is their's probably a setting that I may need to change:
To test the setup I ran emerge -p tar

Omega21 · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:18 am Post subject:

Any reason for this to not work on a PPC install of Kubuntu??
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equilibrium · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 213 Location: UK

I'm trying to get this to run on my ubuntu dapper install, really missing emerge

So far when I install I get

devsk · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:48 pm Post subject:

equilibrium · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 213 Location: UK

damn I was too slow to edit that

hehe but I got it working

thx

I just edited the install script and changed line91

replacing "/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.2/gcc34" with "/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1"

need an etc-update after finish but hopefully I will be able to emerge some stuff now

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equilibrium · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 213 Location: UK

I notice emerge says 2006.1 is depreciated so I've changed it to 2006.0. Also have been unable to fix the sandbox error as sandbox doesn't seem to want to compile

Elv13 · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:41 pm Post subject:

the last part of the script dont work for me, i get

# #
################# UPDATES #######################
# #

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.14" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.8-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
- sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.15-r3 (masked by: package.mask)
- sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.4-r7 (masked by: package.mask)
- sys-apps/baselayout-1.13.0_alpha10 (masked by: package.mask, package.mask)
# Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org> (02 Oct 2006)
# masked for testing due to major ebuild and installation changes

- sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.5-r2 (masked by: package.mask)
- sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.6 (masked by: package.mask)
- sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.14-r8 (masked by: package.mask)
- sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.8 (masked by: package.mask)
- sys-apps/baselayout-1.13.0_alpha10-r1 (masked by: package.mask, package.mask)
- sys-apps/baselayout-1.13.0_alpha10-r2 (masked by: package.mask, package.mask)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
(dependency required by "sys-fs/udev-103" [ebuild])

!!! Problem resolving dependencies for sys-apps/portage
!!! Depgraph creation failed.
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on my other computer i can emerge some things, but not on this one, i use Suse 10.1 (close to return to gentoo, its a buggy distro, but requier less time)

larrythecow · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:24 pm Post subject:

Hoorah! I got portage working on Myah OS 2.3 (basically slackware with improvements). However sometimes when installing certain programs I get:

checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -pipe ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.

gpm for example returns this.
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larrythecow · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:28 pm Post subject:

Gentoo is awesome and so is Myah OS but Mytoo.. well this error sort of ruins the fun

. Some programs install perfectly but lots get this and since I get lots of dependencies in my Mytoo's young life then I can't install much.
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devsk · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:56 pm Post subject:

portage would have told you to look at the config.log file in the /var/tmp/portage/<pkg>/...blah. Did you look at it? If you do, you will probably know how to fix it.

larrythecow · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:22 pm Post subject:

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

configure:563: checking for gcc
configure:676: checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -pipe ) works
configure:692: gcc -o conftest -O2 -pipe conftest.c 1>&5
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory
configure: failed program was:

#line 687 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

main(){return(0);}

Is the output of log so I try to look for as.

I did 'which as' and it returned no as. So I obtained as and I get the same error.

I checked config.log again and now it says:

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

configure:563: checking for gcc
configure:676: checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -pipe ) works
configure:692: gcc -o conftest -O2 -pipe conftest.c 1>&5
collect2: cannot find `ld'
configure: failed program was:

#line 687 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

main(){return(0);}

Turns out my ld symlink was bad so I made a new one and then gpm failed with "yacc not found". When will this madness end?!

Thanks a lot.
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devsk · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:30 pm Post subject:

larrythecow · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:30 pm Post subject:

I got yacc, bison and ranlib and then it worked

I'm now emerging ncurses!
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larrythecow · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:02 am Post subject:

I'm up to emerging binutils with "emerge portage". is it safe to emerge binutils?
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devsk · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:28 am Post subject:

yes, it should be safe. but no harm in keeping an rpm (if that's your original install method) around if need be.

larrythecow · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:41 am Post subject:

Slackware is source based so it uses its own format which lives in a tarball. No rpms.

I am loving my MyToo

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larrythecow · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:03 am Post subject:

Not sure why though, but it is a bit slow however.

What would normally take 1m on Gentoo takes 10m on MyToo. Not sure why, but I suspect is is because I haven't finished an emerge portage yet.

The reason I haven't done emerge portage is because I get stuck on dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.05.

* Using ExtUtils::MakeMaker
checking for gettext... no
checking for gettext in -lintl...gettext function not found. Please install libintl at Makefile.PL line 18.
no

I have gettext and libintl.
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larrythecow · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:24 am Post subject:

When I emerge python I get:

* Applying 2.4.2-readline.patch ...

* Failed Patch: 2.4.2-readline.patch !
* ( /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4/work/2.4.4/2.4.2-readline.patch )
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larrythecow · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:59 pm Post subject:

***** 2.4.2-readline.patch *****

================================

PATCH COMMAND: patch -p0 -g0 -E --no-backup-if-mismatch < /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4/work/2.4.4/2.4.2-readline.patch

================================
patching file configure
Hunk #1 succeeded at 19582 (offset 276 lines).
misordered hunks! output would be garbled
Hunk #3 FAILED at 19800.
Hunk #4 succeeded at 19788 (offset 58 lines).
1 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file configure.rej
patching file configure.in
Hunk #1 succeeded at 2975 (offset 129 lines).
================================

PATCH COMMAND: patch -p1 -g0 -E --no-backup-if-mismatch < /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4/work/2.4.4/2.4.2-readline.patch

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missing header for unified diff at line 4 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -u configure configure
|--- configure 2005-03-29 00:23:02.000000000 +0100
|+++ configure 2005-04-26 14:14:49.373258580 +0100
--------------------------
No file to patch. Skipping patch.
4 out of 4 hunks ignored
missing header for unified diff at line 252 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 252
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -u configure.in configure.in
|--- configure.in 2005-03-29 00:23:34.000000000 +0100
|+++ configure.in 2005-04-26 14:01:03.721206572 +0100
--------------------------
No file to patch. Skipping patch.
2 out of 2 hunks ignored
================================

PATCH COMMAND: patch -p2 -g0 -E --no-backup-if-mismatch < /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4/work/2.4.4/2.4.2-readline.patch

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missing header for unified diff at line 4 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -u configure configure
|--- configure 2005-03-29 00:23:02.000000000 +0100
|+++ configure 2005-04-26 14:14:49.373258580 +0100
--------------------------
No file to patch. Skipping patch.
4 out of 4 hunks ignored
missing header for unified diff at line 252 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 252
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -u configure.in configure.in
|--- configure.in 2005-03-29 00:23:34.000000000 +0100
|+++ configure.in 2005-04-26 14:01:03.721206572 +0100
--------------------------
No file to patch. Skipping patch.
2 out of 2 hunks ignored
================================

PATCH COMMAND: patch -p3 -g0 -E --no-backup-if-mismatch < /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4/work/2.4.4/2.4.2-readline.patch

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missing header for unified diff at line 4 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -u configure configure
|--- configure 2005-03-29 00:23:02.000000000 +0100
|+++ configure 2005-04-26 14:14:49.373258580 +0100
--------------------------
No file to patch. Skipping patch.
4 out of 4 hunks ignored
missing header for unified diff at line 252 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 252
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -u configure.in configure.in
|--- configure.in 2005-03-29 00:23:34.000000000 +0100
|+++ configure.in 2005-04-26 14:01:03.721206572 +0100
--------------------------
No file to patch. Skipping patch.
2 out of 2 hunks ignored
================================

PATCH COMMAND: patch -p4 -g0 -E --no-backup-if-mismatch < /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4/work/2.4.4/2.4.2-readline.patch

================================
missing header for unified diff at line 4 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -u configure configure
|--- configure 2005-03-29 00:23:02.000000000 +0100
|+++ configure 2005-04-26 14:14:49.373258580 +0100
--------------------------
No file to patch. Skipping patch.
4 out of 4 hunks ignored
missing header for unified diff at line 252 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 252
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -u configure.in configure.in
|--- configure.in 2005-03-29 00:23:34.000000000 +0100
|+++ configure.in 2005-04-26 14:01:03.721206572 +0100
--------------------------
No file to patch. Skipping patch.
2 out of 2 hunks ignored
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larrythecow · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:35 am Post subject:

myah lib # emerge pycrypto
Calculating dependencies... done!

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r5 to /
* pycrypto-2.0.1.tar.gz RMD160 ;-)

... [ ok ]
* pycrypto-2.0.1.tar.gz SHA1 ;-)

... [ ok ]
* pycrypto-2.0.1.tar.gz SHA256 ;-)

... [ ok ]
* pycrypto-2.0.1.tar.gz size ;-)

... [ ok ]
* checking ebuild checksums ;-)

... [ ok ]
* checking auxfile checksums ;-)

... [ ok ]
* checking miscfile checksums ;-)

... [ ok ]
* checking pycrypto-2.0.1.tar.gz ;-)

... [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking pycrypto-2.0.1.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r5/work
* Applying pycrypto-2.0.1-sha256.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying pycrypto-2.0.1-gmp.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying pycrypto-2.0.1-uint32.patch ... [ ok ]
* Applying pycrypto-2.0.1-sancho-package-rename.patch ... [ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked.
>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r5/work/pycrypto-2.0.1 ...
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.4
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto
copying ./__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto
copying ./test.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Hash
copying ./Hash/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Hash
copying ./Hash/HMAC.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Hash
copying ./Hash/MD5.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Hash
copying ./Hash/SHA.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Hash
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Cipher
copying ./Cipher/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Cipher
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Util
copying ./Util/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Util
copying ./Util/number.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Util
copying ./Util/randpool.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Util
copying ./Util/RFC1751.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Util
copying ./Util/test.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Util
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Protocol
copying ./Protocol/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Protocol
copying ./Protocol/AllOrNothing.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Protocol
copying ./Protocol/Chaffing.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/Protocol
creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/PublicKey
copying ./PublicKey/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/PublicKey
copying ./PublicKey/DSA.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/PublicKey
copying ./PublicKey/ElGamal.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/PublicKey
copying ./PublicKey/pubkey.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/PublicKey
copying ./PublicKey/qNEW.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/PublicKey
copying ./PublicKey/RSA.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.4/Crypto/PublicKey
running build_ext
building 'Crypto.Hash.MD2' extension
creating build/temp.linux-i686-2.4
creating build/temp.linux-i686-2.4/src
-fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -O3 -march=i486 -mtune=i686 -O2 -pipe -fPIC -Isrc/ -I/usr/include/python2.4 -c src/MD2.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.4/src/MD2.o
unable to execute -fno-strict-aliasing: No such file or directory
error: command '-fno-strict-aliasing' failed with exit status 1

!!! ERROR: dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r5 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_compile
ebuild.sh, line 971: Called qa_call 'src_compile'
environment, line 3542: Called src_compile
pycrypto-2.0.1-r5.ebuild, line 38: Called distutils_src_compile
distutils.eclass, line 38: Called die

!!! compilation failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r5/temp/build.log'.
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acern300 · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 31

hello, i am a noob in linux, but i really need portage on a knoppix installation on a external harddrive. I dont really understand what i must do with this script :-(

can somebudu tell me what i must do step by step? it would be really friendly :-P

thank you

gotha666 · n00b Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Bulgaria

I dont know if anybody is still interested in this project but ...
I`ve tried to install portage on Slackware 10.2 with the package portage-2.1.3 and portage-2.0.51.22 but the script doesnt work properly. Thats why I started executing everything by hand and trying to correct it. I stuck on compiling and installing of sandbox just because there is no such directory in my archive. Any ideas?
Is this directory created after compiling some other package/s ?
I suppose i have to mention that I am using python-2.4 because this is the only provided package for Slackware 10.2
P.S. My english is... hm ... worse than I exprected so I hope you understand me

tony11235 · Apprentice Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 198

How do you get "!!! Problem with sandbox binary. Disabling..." error to go away? I was trying to emerge emacs. My portage.mask is the following:

desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

Have you tried using /etc/portage/profile/package.provided?