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tomaw
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 Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 7:57 am Post subject: Install xfree 4.3 |
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Hi all,
I'm new to Gentoo, but have used SuSE for years, so I know roughly what happens on a Linux machine.
However, I'm trying to 'emerge xfree', but can only seem to get 4.2.1. How can I persuade it to install 4.3?
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chris4linux
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 8:07 am Post subject: |
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the 4.3.0 version breaks on my computer, the freetypes doen't work correct and 4.2.x is more stable I belive...
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tomaw
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 8:14 am Post subject: |
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| chris4linux wrote: | | the 4.3.0 version breaks on my computer, the freetypes doen't work correct and 4.2.x is more stable I belive... |
4.3 is quite a bit faster on my Radeon 9000 though... |
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ohaleck
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 10:49 am Post subject: |
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| Hey, is there any way of choosing version of source to build? |
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boutta
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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Try an | Code: | | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge xfree" |
taht schoukl do the thing on a pc (for other archs change the ~x86) |
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Black Sword
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| boutta wrote: | Try an | Code: | | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge xfree" |
taht schoukl do the thing on a pc (for other archs change the ~x86) |
Indeed that will--XFree 4.3 is currently masked as unstable, (which is why you can't emerge it!). The above code forces an unmask. As always try an
| Code: | | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p xfree > thisguysisclever.file |
to review which packages will be merged and dumps it to an appropriately named file  since the package list will scroll your screen. Then on with the merge (use -u option)
| Code: | | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -u xfree |
Usually takes overnight on my machine (< 8 hours--I don't actually know when it finishes--AMD 1.2Ghz/256 DDR) |
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