On Wednesday 05 October 2005 05:00 pm, Roger Miliker wrote: > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 23:39, billyd wrote: > > I've been playing around with Gentoo 2005.1 trying to get it > > installed using genkernel. I am a little beyond newbie with > > linux but still in a steep learning curve. I am at the point > > in this installation where I can start installing packages. > > The handbook uses kde as an example. > > > > My question: Is there an order in which packages need to be > > installed. For example, should x11-xorg be installed before > > kde? > > > > Thanks, > > Then handbook part you are referring to means the packages from > the packages iso. The correct command would be emerge --usepkg > kde-meta (to use the binaries off the packages.iso). portage > takes care of the dependencies of packages automatically, so it > will install xorg-x11 before anything that needs it like kde. > > If you haven't done a networkless install (stage3, snapshot, > packages.iso, no emerge --sync) it works the same way except it > downloads and compiles things. > > So in short: no need for a special order, since portage/emerge > takes care of the dependencies for you. > > Roger
Thanks, Roger. That was very helpful. Bill -- Billy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
