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Rechenwerk
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Joined: 27 Sep 2002
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Location: Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany
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 Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 6:52 am Post subject: Very stupid Question... (what is foo?) |
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Hi there! I'm from Germany, so my English is not so good. When I came to Linux, everywhere
the word "foo" appeared... Well, what is that? There is no entry in my dictionary 
I don't know. Perhaps this is a stupid Question, so please don't hurt you, when falling
off the chair. 
This is the problem that made me finally ask for "foo's" meaning:
(I've started to emerge MPlayer, when my system crashed. Now I want
to complete the installation)
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# emerge mplayer
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge media-video/mplayer-0.90_pre8 to /
>>> md5 ;-) MPlayer-0.90pre8.tar.bz2
>>> md5 ;-) mp-arial-iso-8859-1.zip
>>> md5 ;-) mp-arial-iso-8859-2.zip
>>> No message digest entry found for archive"default-skin-0.1.tar.bz2."
!!! Type "ebuild foo.ebuild digest" to generate a new digest.
# ebuild foo.ebuild digest (just trying it)
!!! doebuild: foo.ebuild not found.
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Can anybody help me? |
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orochi
Tux's lil' helper
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| Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 6:55 am Post subject: hehe |
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| foo is just a generic term in computers... it basically means anything or watever, the term comes from foobar or fubar, which is actually a world war 2 acronym for f*cked up beyond all repair =) |
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orochi
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| Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 6:56 am Post subject: so |
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so do
ebuild /path/to/mplayer.ebuild digest |
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Rechenwerk
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| Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 7:06 am Post subject: |
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Ahh! OK. I remember it from "James Ryan"...
Thanks. Now it works |
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rac
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| Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2002 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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Also see https://forums.gentoo.org/faq.php#16 for a reference that answers lots of similar questions.
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pjp
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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Locking in favor of this thread.
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