[gentoo-user] problem installing confluent-kafka from guru

2022-02-21 Thread Anatoly Oreshkin
Hello, I am a newbie to Gentoo. As end user I am using package confluent-kafka from guru repository. To install it I have performed the following steps in command line: 1. sudo emerge app-eselect/eselect-repository 2. sudo mkdir /etc/portage/repos.conf 3. sudo eselect repository enable guru 4. s

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-21 Thread hitachi303
Am 22.02.2022 um 06:27 schrieb Andreas Fink: On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:26:30 +0100 hitachi303 wrote: emerge -av --depclean emerge -a --depclean --with-bdeps=n only then when there are as few programs installed as possible I run emerge --sync emerge -Dua --reinstall changed-use @world I t

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-21 Thread hitachi303
Am 21.02.2022 um 22:48 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:26:30 +0100, hitachi303 wrote: When running an update after a long long time my approach is as follows: emerge -av --depclean You don't need to unmerge them, just add --exclude "firefox thunderbird etc" to your emerge comm

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-21 Thread Andreas Fink
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:26:30 +0100 hitachi303 wrote: > > emerge -av --depclean Stuff like firefox, thunderbird, etc.> > > emerge -a --depclean --with-bdeps=n > > only then when there are as few programs installed as possible I run > emerge --sync > > emerge -Dua --reinstall changed-use @world I

[gentoo-user] Re: How to copy gzip data from bytestream?

2022-02-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-02-22, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 8:29 PM Grant Edwards > wrote: >> >> But I was trying to figure out a way to do it without uncompressing >> and recompressing the data. I had hoped that the gzip header would >> contain a "length" field (so I would know how many bytes

Re: [gentoo-user] How to copy gzip data from bytestream?

2022-02-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 8:29 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > > But I was trying to figure out a way to do it without uncompressing > and recompressing the data. I had hoped that the gzip header would > contain a "length" field (so I would know how many bytes to copy using > dd), but it does not. Apparen

[gentoo-user] How to copy gzip data from bytestream?

2022-02-21 Thread Grant Edwards
I've got a "raw" USB flash drive containing a large chunk of gzipped data. By "raw" I mean no partition table, now filesystem. Think of it as a tape (if you're old enough). gzip -tv is quite happy to validate the data and says it's OK, though it says it ignored extra bytes after the end of the "fi

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice fails to build, cannot download non-existant ~scarabeus/lpsolve-5.5.2.0.tar.xz ???

2022-02-21 Thread Jack
On 2022.02.21 14:55, Jack wrote: On 2/21/22 14:35, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: https://bugs.gentoo.org/614866 That is strange.  I just deleted the lpsolve file from my distfiles dir, and ran "ebuild path/to/ebuild fetch" and it downloaded just fine - but not from SRC_URI="http://dev.gentooexpe

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:26:30 +0100, hitachi303 wrote: > When running an update after a long long time my approach is as follows: > > emerge -av --depclean Stuff like firefox, thunderbird, etc.> You don't need to unmerge them, just add --exclude "firefox thunderbird etc" to your emerge command.

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-21 Thread hitachi303
Am 20.02.22 um 16:18 schrieb Wols Lists: On 20/02/2022 14:54, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 at 15:40, Dr Rainer Woitok  wrote: But if I understand the "emerge" manual page correctly, "--changed-deps" causes a rebuild of a package,  if one of its  dependencies has been re- build, eve

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice fails to build, cannot download non-existant ~scarabeus/lpsolve-5.5.2.0.tar.xz ???

2022-02-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Am 21. Februar 2022 19:58:00 UTC schrieb Steven Lembark : >On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 20:35:23 +0100 >Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/614866 > >Bug doesn't address it, but shouldn't using the alternate >lp library via "coinmp" sidestep the issue? > If you read through the bug you w

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice fails to build, cannot download non-existant ~scarabeus/lpsolve-5.5.2.0.tar.xz ???

2022-02-21 Thread Steven Lembark
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 20:35:23 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/614866 Bug doesn't address it, but shouldn't using the alternate lp library via "coinmp" sidestep the issue? -- Steven Lembark Workhorse Computing lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice fails to build, cannot download non-existant ~scarabeus/lpsolve-5.5.2.0.tar.xz ???

2022-02-21 Thread Jack
On 2/21/22 14:35, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: https://bugs.gentoo.org/614866 That is strange.  I just deleted the lpsolve file from my distfiles dir, and ran "ebuild path/to/ebuild fetch" and it downloaded just fine - but not from SRC_URI="http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/~scarabeus/${P}.tar.xz";

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice fails to build, cannot download non-existant ~scarabeus/lpsolve-5.5.2.0.tar.xz ???

2022-02-21 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
https://bugs.gentoo.org/614866

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice fails to build, cannot download non-existant ~scarabeus/lpsolve-5.5.2.0.tar.xz ???

2022-02-21 Thread Dale
Steven Lembark wrote: > Need to install libreoffice (welcome to Tax Time!). > > Building either libreoffice or libreoffice-bin failes with > the same error downloading lpsolve from an > apparently non-exitant "dev.gentooexperimental.org". > > Disabling lpsolve or switching to coinmp, or disabling

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice fails to build, cannot download non-existant ~scarabeus/lpsolve-5.5.2.0.tar.xz ???

2022-02-21 Thread Jack
I'm not sure where experimental anything is coming from.  Do you have some overlay set up? How recently have you synced? I see libreoffice-7.2.5.2-r1 and lpsolve-5.5.2.0 as the only stable versions in the main portage tree, and both were re-installed within the past three days. On 2/21/22 13

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-21 Thread Steven Lembark
On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 17:24:44 + Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > This has nothing to do with Gentoo, but I don't know where else to > ask. > > I have a couple of vertically mounted easy-swap disk caddies in the > back of my workstation, and I'm having trouble finding screws to > mount

[gentoo-user] libreoffice fails to build, cannot download non-existant ~scarabeus/lpsolve-5.5.2.0.tar.xz ???

2022-02-21 Thread Steven Lembark
Need to install libreoffice (welcome to Tax Time!). Building either libreoffice or libreoffice-bin failes with the same error downloading lpsolve from an apparently non-exitant "dev.gentooexperimental.org". Disabling lpsolve or switching to coinmp, or disabling both, don't avoid the issue: lps

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-21 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 05:38:09 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> P. S.  I tried tkman to read man pages.  It pukes a error and doesn't >> work.  Something changed in the man command and I don't like it.  I'm >> looking for a GUI man page tool.  Any ideas?  Off list if needed.  I >> notic

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 21 February 2022 15:10:21 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 10:20:42 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Once again I must apologise for polluting a software list with common > > hardware. > > If it was common, you wouldn't have needed to ask the list where to find > it :-O

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 10:20:42 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Once again I must apologise for polluting a software list with common > hardware. If it was common, you wouldn't have needed to ask the list where to find it :-O -- Neil Bothwick deja vous - the act of forgetting someone's name /ag

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 05:38:09 -0600, Dale wrote: > P. S.  I tried tkman to read man pages.  It pukes a error and doesn't > work.  Something changed in the man command and I don't like it.  I'm > looking for a GUI man page tool.  Any ideas?  Off list if needed.  I > noticed this when trying to read

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-02-21, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Countersunk - that's the operative word here, so I ended up googling for "M3 > x > 5 countersunk", taking a guess at the M3, and found a specialist supplier. Next time, you might want to search for "flathead" instead of "countersunk". I think the former i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-21 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 21 February 2022 10:55:41 GMT Dale wrote: >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> Once again I must apologise for polluting a software list with common >>> hardware. >> I don't see this as polluting myself. It is computer related. I've >> asked hardware questions here qui

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 21 February 2022 10:55:41 GMT Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Once again I must apologise for polluting a software list with common > > hardware. > > I don't see this as polluting myself. It is computer related. I've > asked hardware questions here quite often, even a windoze

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-21 Thread Dale
Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Wol, > > On Sunday, 2022-02-20 14:56:20 +, you wrote: > >> ... >>But --deep - that's to do >> with a dependency changing USE flags, and it will block a depclean if >> you don't do it. > Thanks for the reminder! This is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-21 Thread Wols Lists
On 21/02/2022 10:55, Dale wrote: I don't see this as polluting myself.  It is computer related.  I've asked hardware questions here quite often, even a windoze question a couple times.  After all, there is some very knowledgeable people here to get help from.  All of us know something someone els

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-21 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 20 February 2022 22:53:02 GMT Miles Malone wrote: >> The standard is #6-32 UNC for 3.5" harddrives, and most case-related >> stuff including motherboard standoffs. It's M3 standard for 2.5" >> harddrives, 5.25" optical drives, etc, etc. > Useful info - thanks. >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

2022-02-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 20 February 2022 22:53:02 GMT Miles Malone wrote: > The standard is #6-32 UNC for 3.5" harddrives, and most case-related > stuff including motherboard standoffs. It's M3 standard for 2.5" > harddrives, 5.25" optical drives, etc, etc. Useful info - thanks. > The lengths arent standard

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-21 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Wol, On Sunday, 2022-02-20 14:56:20 +, you wrote: > ... >But --deep - that's to do > with a dependency changing USE flags, and it will block a depclean if > you don't do it. Thanks for the reminder! This is in fact mentioned in every output