[SOLVED]Gentoo.....reboot than...!

sandokan · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 85

Hey guys!!

I finished installing and than I started complicating? with emerge....

I did this comands in the same order...and I would like to know if I need to repair or clean some thing.....becaus I realy don`t want to start from begining....I was runing my computer for last two days...

I started with....

emerge kde kdevelop mplayer mozilla

THAN I did

emerge --sync

THAN

emerge gnumeric

THAN

well here I did this and I dont know if this was a bad idea

emerge --usepkg kde
(I thought this will install kde desktop enviroment / you know to start using graphical....

THAN

emerge qt

I belive this is all

So ...should I uninstall something or is EMERGE --USEPKG
I dont have GRP cd from gentoo
I was installing stage3-athlon-xp

I thougt that with emerge I will only bring down packages from web and after if I want to use them I must use this comand EMERGE --USEPKG to install and to start using....

Please help ......

If I want to use kde ,now I need to go to its folder and vrite kdm comand....is this normal or should kde start by it self at beginning...

Oh,I fuc...it up didnt I

What shold I do.....???

Thanx

loki99 · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 12:26 pm Post subject:

you really should take a look at the gentoo handbook.especially at this part.

this howto also seems to explain the use of portage quite well. Link!

"man emerge" also can be helpful.

concerning howto install a desktop take a look at this

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but here are some short tips for you:

*) you should use "emerge sync" before installing any package. what it does, is to sync your local portage tree with the up-to-date tree of your prefered mirror. this way you will allways emerge the newest version of an app.

*) allways use "emerge -av <package_name> (-av = --ask --verbose). that way you can look at all the different packages your system wants to emerge, dependencies and what kind of -use flags affect this package. so you can decide whether it is a good idea to do the emerge.

*) to install a package you just have to type: ie.: "emerge -av kde" thats it! if everything works, the app is ready to use!

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 12:26 pm Post subject:

Hi.

I'm pretty sure that emerge --usekpg doesn't do anything. You would need to do emerge --usepkg "some package" for it to work.
When you do an emerge, you're installing or upgrading some packages. You then have to configure them. If I understood your question correctly, kde doesn't start working just because you emerged it. You need to configure it.
Look at /etc/rc.conf and put DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" and XSESSION="kde-3.4" - assuming you're using kde-3.4. Then execute /etc/init.d/xdm start. If all is well, don't forget to add xdm to the default level rc-update add xdm default if you want to boot to a GUI session.

loki99 · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 12:49 pm Post subject:

nixnut · Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 1:34 pm Post subject:

Here are some useful documents: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/?catid=desktop
Start with these two:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml

About emerge --usepkg kde: That will try to use binary packages if available. They are available on the packages cd. You need to put the files on the cd on your harddisk in /usr/portage/packages/All or edit your make.conf and change PKGDIR to /mnt/cdrom and then mount the packages cd on /mnt/cdrom. If you don't have the binary packages, emerge will download the source files and compile from them.
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