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cesar
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 Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 4:49 am Post subject: libs needed and emerge packages |
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Hello all:
I finally got KDE up and running, but had to do it from the CD, not internet because last time it failed. I have several questions regarding my next steps in Gentoo.
1- How do I know which packages to emerge when I try to compile a program and I get messages like:
error libfl.a is needed by program test.f
How do know whether Gentoo provides that library and how do I know in which package it may be contained?
2- I had many problems trying "emerge sync" but finally I managed to do it using "emerge httprsync" command. Does that make a database in a Gentoo server where all the files installed in my PC are listed? Is it automatic? Do I have to run that command often?
3 - I read the documentation in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-user.xml for emerge, but I think they don't list all commands for it. For example, when I first ran into problems installing KDE, I wanted to remove it. In other posts I read that the way to do it was
emerge -C kde
emerge -p depclean
emerge depclean
Would you please tell me where to find a complete reference guide (not just the man pages)?
Thanks in advance,
Cesar |
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smiler.se
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| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 5:20 am Post subject: Re: libs needed and emerge packages |
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| cesar wrote: | 1- How do I know which packages to emerge when I try to compile a program and I get messages like:
error libfl.a is needed by program test.f
How do know whether Gentoo provides that library and how do I know in which package it may be contained? |
Can you provide a real example?
Usually emerge -s libfl should spit out a list, else emerge -s fl
| Quote: | | 2- I had many problems trying "emerge sync" but finally I managed to do it using "emerge httprsync" command. Does that make a database in a Gentoo server where all the files installed in my PC are listed? Is it automatic? Do I have to run that command often? |
Yes a database snapshot will be stored in /usr/portage. Its safe to remove but you will need it everytime you use emerge.
| Quote: | 3 - I read the documentation in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-user.xml for emerge, but I think they don't list all commands for it. For example, when I first ran into problems installing KDE, I wanted to remove it. In other posts I read that the way to do it was
emerge -C kde
emerge -p depclean
emerge depclean
Would you please tell me where to find a complete reference guide (not just the man pages)? |
emerge depclean is still very expremental and it depends alot of your USE-flags
Verify that not tomany packages will be removed by it (with -p).
Im afraid that the best documentation if you cant find it on http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/docs.xml is the manpages
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