Thanks for your advice
# find . -name 'openoffice*' -maxdepth 2 ./app-office/openoffice-bin ./app-office/openoffice
Then what command shall I issue to install them
1) emerge -k openoffice
or
2) ./openoffice-bin
I'd imagine it would be emerge -k openoffice... have a look on the
online package database at the descriptions of both. Will probably give
a better indication. 2) should be emerge -k openoffice-bin I think
Ok. I will try # emerge -k openoffice-bin later
Unfortunately, there isn't a web based search. You can do:
emerge search <searchterm>
As another poster suggested (I didn't know this, but then I only started using gentoo on friday!). Once you know which section it's in, you can go and have a look on the website for more details, e.g. with sc, type:
emerge search sc
I did # emerge search kde > /tmp/kde-search
according to Jon's advice. I attached 'kde-search' file to my reply to Jon earlier.
will give you a whole list of things with 'sc' in. In amongst these is app-office/sc, so go to http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/index.xml and click on app-office, then sc. This will give you a few details, including the developer homepage etc. In most cases, I think you can bypass the clicking by doing (e.g.) http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/app-office/sc.xml
Actually sc is a lousy example as there a lot of things with sc in their name, so you'll get lots of results. In this case you might want to try
emerge search sc | egrep '^\*.*\/sc$'
# emerge search sc | egrep '^\*.*\/sc$' * app-office/sc
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Try this and see if it makes it any clearer:
echo net-www/mozilla > mylist.txt echo net-www/w3m >> mylist.txt echo kde >> mylist.txt emerge -p `cat mylist.txt`
Should say that it would install a whole lot of packages!
then do:
emerge `cat mylist.txt`
emerge `cat mylist.txt` displays a long list of [ebuild N ] kde-base/kde-3.1.4 ...... etc.
and it'll go off and do it. The advantage of this is that you canHowever I hesitate to install kde from net because of my slow PC. I don't know how long it will take. I am in anticipation to use the pre-compile kde packages on CD2
prepare a whole lot of packages that you want it to compile and then
leave it for a long time, rather than having to be at the computer or
going back every hour or so. Get a nice long list of everything you
want and then leave your computer to build it all over the weekend or
whatever.
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Noted with thanksWhat command shall be used? I have all tarballs copied to /usr/portage/packages/ALL/
emerge packagename
where packagename is something like "kde" or "mozilla" or "app-office/sc" (without the quotes). Adding a -k before the package name will try and use a binary if it's available. In many ways this defies the point of gentoo though, as it's supposed to be a source based distribution (makes things run faster). Also, -k only installs binaries if they're available, otherwise it compiles from source.
That's about all I can think of, if I've missed anything or said anything wrong, hopefully someone more knowledgeable will pick up on it and correct me.
I think the key thing when you're installing gentoo (which hopefully
I'll finish eventually!) is to be very very very very very very very
patient.
B.R. Stephen
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