emerge --usepkg kde fail-what happens to the files? [solved]

simvin76 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 96

Hello

Finished 2005.1 install och tried to install kde from the package CD. I followed the instructions, set the PKGDIR and didn't do emerge --sync before starting, still emerge downloaded the packages (some at least) from the net instead from the CD.
I have red on the forum that there appears to be some kind of error with the package-cd.

After compiling for 24h emerge exited with the following message:

davascript · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 618 Location: Pennsylvania

You can run thsi to uninstal the emerged packages

simvin76 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 96

I tried to uninstall it with "emerge --unmerge" but got the following message:

davascript · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 618 Location: Pennsylvania

sorry for the wrong command. thats telling you ther isnt anything installed so you dont have to worry about it

simvin76 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 96

It tells me kde isn't installed but I wonder about all the dependencies that was installed before emerge exited. Did those packages get installed, or are they just lying in tmp?

Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:39 am Post subject:

There is currently an issue with the documentation but we're still investigating for which architectures and what the best solution is.

Some architectures don't support kde (the package) but kde-meta. In those cases you're better off with emerge kde-meta as that won't bring in source-code compilations.

Running emerge -C kde (or emerge unmerge kde) won't remove the dependencies the package has triggered. For this, you need to run emerge --depclean, but beware that you don't do this before having a completely up-to-date system.

See also Working with Portage, a very important chapter in the Gentoo Handbook.
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simvin76 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 96

So if I run

Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:45 am Post subject:

Almost...

simvin76 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 96

Ok, will do that. Thank you.

I still wonder about the original question. What happens to the dependencies that were downloaded, all that were completed before emerge exited are they installed?

Sven Vermeulen · Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:20 pm Post subject:

Yes, they are installed. That's why the depclean is needed. It'll search for installed packages that have no parent. It checks the content of the /var/lib/portage/world file and traverses the dependencies. This builds an entire tree of all the packages that are (and should be) installed on your system.

The packages that aren't mentioned in that tree are orphaned packages which should probably be removed.
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simvin76 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 96

Thinks are becoming a little bit clearer.

Thank you very much

/Simon

etequess · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 5

Hi there,

I was pointed to this thread by moderator. The answers here are informative, but doesn't help resolving my problem. No matter how I set my PKGDIR, my gentoo is always downloading the packages from the web instead of using ones from the CD rom.

Can somebody please offer me some help?

Thanks a lot.

rizzurant · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:26 am Post subject:

when i try to emerge --rsync its failed becausethe rules blocked rsync

but when i use

jballou · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:57 pm Post subject:

nixnut · Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Desktop Environments.
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