Difficulty installing KDE

bobhesketh · n00b Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 16 Location: Scotland

Hi,

I'm doing a stage 3 Gentoo install. Everything seemed to go OK following the manual. Got as far as installing X which appeared OK.

I started to install KDE two and a half days ago by running the command:

emerge kde

After a day and a half it was still progressing, so I serached this forum, and found that someone with a K6-400 took 2 days to install. So I waited.

After almost exactly 48 hours, it stopped with an error. Something about a hardware or OS problem because the error wasn't repeatable. Sorry, I didn't write it all down (not like me at all -honest).

Then I did emerge --pretend kde.

It said I only had 10 more packages to install.

So I did emerge kde again. That was over 12 hours ago, and it's still going.

My question is: Is this KDE installation likely to work? I keep looking at the screen every now and then, and although it's mostly gobbledegook to me, I do occasionally see the odd warning flash past.

How much longer is it likely to take?

System details:

K6-500
256MB RAM
512MB swap
512K broadband internet connection via ethernet.
2.65 gentoo-dev-sources kernel.

Thanks in advance

Bob.

Goat · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 76

if you have a live cd or just a package cd you should be able to get kde off of that it says it in the handbook
didnt take me nearly that long on a k6-2 400

bobhesketh · n00b Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 16 Location: Scotland

I used the Gentoo minimal LiveCD. I thought that way I would get the most up-to date system

amne · Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 4:07 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Desktop Environments.

bobhesketh · n00b Joined: 30 May 2004 Posts: 16 Location: Scotland

OK . . . finished installing at last. Took approx 68 hours in total. No way would I have done that if I knew it would take that long.

Seems to work OK though