John Dangler wrote:
I know this isn't really the Gentoo (read - Linux) way, but, since I'm using
this for business apps, I need to take the end users point of view for a
moment. Open Office or the "Ximianized" Open Office. I read that Ximian
was bought by Novell, so I'm wondering which of these
John Dangler wrote:
I just tried emerging gaim and got this error:
configure: WARNING: Could not find Tcl which is needed for the kadm5 tests
configure: error: Could not find Tcl
!!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/mit-krb5-1.4.1-r2/work/krb5-1.4.1/src/confi
David Busby wrote:
I cannot open /etc/ld.so.cache! What? See:
cdrtx cdr_tx # ls -l /etc/ld.so.cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18311 Aug 27 21:13 /etc/ld.so.cache
Any other ideas?
I reproduced your bug and diagnostics on a vmware install of gentoo
exactly by doing a chmod a-x /
So issuing a
Jerry Turba wrote:
Thanks Willie and Marco for the ideas. I got the HOWTO and will read it
and try it out. I wasn't aware that there was a gentoo wiki. Looks like
lots of info there that I need to read.
Thanks for the help.
Hi, just for clarification so there is no confusion, my suggestion to
Willie Wong wrote:
2. I already have pam installed. What is the cleanest way to remove it
without having any residual hiccoughs.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Remove_PAM
Follow it exactly. If you miss a step, you might have to whip out a
liveCD the next time your reboot to get into your systems
Grant wrote:
The xfce4-panel has stopped loading automatically for me and the
calendar has started. Where can I specify that I want the panel
started with xfce4 but not the calendar?
panel:
I believe it should be sufficient to start the panel (xfce4-panel)
manually once via terminal or alt+f2
W.Kenworthy wrote:
Lastly, top/bottom posting is a religion so you are unlikely to change
either groups opinion, but just cause angst.
[This is not meant as a flame, so please read this message to a
lighthearted tune, sipping a glass of wine in the comfort of your
favourite easy-chair :) -- a
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote:
As for comments on VMWare, it isn't free software and you need a
licence key. Some purists don't like the fact that it isn't free. I
never tested it, but I hear it is a great emulator. Plex86, the free
software counter-part, is still under development.
Willie Wong wrote:
The nanosecond option has always puzzled me, if only because on my box
I never get any finer grained output than microseconds... i.e. date
+%N always gives 0 as the last three digits.
Now technically this computer runs at 2 GHz... so presumably it is
possible to hit the ente
Harry Putnam wrote:
Ha .. Thanks.. has that been there a long time?
Dunno, I noticed it a few weeks ago -- probably has been there since
processors have had frequencies above a GHz i suppose.
Marco
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John Dangler wrote:
Does the moving of the config files have any effect on the already compiled
kernel? (I was under the impression that a .config _went with_ a specific
build) or is that a throwback to too much time in a m$ environment?
the .config file determines how and especially which part
John Dangler wrote:
The list of possible flags is somewhat overwhelming. And many of them, I
wouldn't really know if I need them or not. So far, since I only have the
base system running, I'm trying to get everything I want to have sans a
graphic environment going, so I'm doing USE="-X" with th
John Dangler wrote:
That makes some sense. (Gentoo is all about choices)
So, basically, I emerge the new 'slot' and then re-compile the new kernel
version according to the handbook, giving me both the existing kernel
version and the new version...
Exactly, installing the new kernel sources does n
Harry Putnam wrote:
I know about perl scipting for this but wanted something like the
`date' command that is its own dedicated program.
Is there a unix tool that outputs a finer grain of time segments?
man date
look for nanosecond format, e.g.:
date +"%N"
Marco
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you might also want to try
man emerge
most commands on your system will have a manpage, and they will probably
give you helpful hints as to how they function. you can also do it
with any other command:
man ls
man gcc
man ldd
man man
...
Hope that helps,
Marco
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John Dangler wrote:
I just finished the base install of the 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6). When I
run emerge -sync, and then emerge -uDvp system, I get a short list updates
that portage wants to emerge, but there aren't any kernel updates. However,
if I run emerge -uDvp world, there is a new versio
John Dangler wrote:
I have just installed a basic 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6) on my laptop. I'm
trying to get my arms around the USE flags. I found a set of 'default'
settings (I think) under /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults . From
what I've read in the gentoo documentation, this seems to
John Dangler wrote:
I changed some options to the menuconfig (trying to get that splash to
work), and saved the changes to an alternate config file.
I'd like to make a kernel with _that_ config file and keep it separate from
my default 2.6-r12 kernel, since, when the splash causes the panic, I ha
dont inaverdently remove them? For instance I am using udev for some time
now, can I let depclean remove devfsd?
yes you can, at least i had no problems with that
Marco
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And then I'm quite surprise, 41 packages should be removed, and among them, a
lot of usefull lib or tool (perl-ldap, xinetd, and so on ...)
Is this result normal ? What did I miss ?
1. it might be old stuff that really isn't needed anymore, as already
mentioned by others
2. portage up to a
Well this is an excellent resource, BUT it seems
devoid of any examples where a custom device driver,
say for the serial port on a linux system,
inserted as a module or is part of the kernel,
and the associate software that allows users
to access some of the hardware(features) and not
other hardw
Vincent A. Primavera wrote:
Hello,
Just looking for some opinions here. What is a good approach to
installing applications with a minimal amount of optional USE flags
enabled? For example, if one were to run `emerge -pv kde-base/kde` you
Hi,
regarding kde, you might want to try the s
Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
> Hmmm - that all sounds sane, but what is this default period of time?
> What criteria must be met in order for a masked package (and
> specifically for Subversion) to become unmasked?
I *think* it is something along the lines of "30 days without a bug",
not 100% sure thoug
Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
> I'd have thought lots of people in the gentoo crowd would have been
> eagerly awaiting subversion 1.2.x with its substantial new "reserved
> checkout" - but nothing seems to have moved forward.
you must have missed this link from the gentoo homepage (on the left):
http://pa
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