launching console to emerge ebuilds from kde's gui

FuriousGeorge · Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 160

im trying to associate the *.ebuild file with opening console and prompting me for my root pw to emerge whatever ebuild i click on.

ive tried (in control panel --> file associations)

su && emerge $1
konsole -e su -c emerge $1
sudo emerge $1

and other variations of these, but nothing works. also, i'm not POSIX compliant so this is a bit out of my league.

thanks in advace

thebigslide · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:36 am Post subject:

FuriousGeorge · Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 160

a non-responisve blank terminal window opens when i put that in

thebigslide · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:00 am Post subject:

hmm, kdsu should prompt you for the root password.... Can you run kdsu from a terminal?

FuriousGeorge · Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 160

i cannot.

sorry, i should have thought to try that

i did try emerge -s kdsu but didnt find anything

thebigslide · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:21 am Post subject:

Jeez. Long night. It's kdesu. that's probably why :oops:

FuriousGeorge · Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 160

were close, now it prompts me for a pw and immediately says finished in teh title bar without printing anything in the console

thebigslide · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:40 am Post subject:

Try putting everything after kdesu in quotes. I betcha it's only taking the first argument.

FuriousGeorge · Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 160

lol, now the title bar says shell - kdsu ebuild $1 install qmerge

doesnt say anythibng abut finished, but doesnt prompt me for my pw

fuji · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 26 Apr 2002 Posts: 111

`kdesu --help`

`kdesu -c <command>`
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FuriousGeorge · Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 160

FuriousGeorge · Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 160

could this problem in any wya be related to the fact that i cant run kdesu in a konsole until i "source /etc/profile"