Thanks for your advice.
Installation of kde was interrupted unexpectedly after running 56 hours with following warning popup:
.......
make[3]: *** [kuickshow.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/kdegraphics-3.1.4/work/kdegraphics-3.1.4/kuickshow/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/kdegraphics-3.1.4/work/kdegraphics-3.1.4/kuickshow'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/kdegraphics-3.1.4/work/kdegraphics-3.1.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2
!!! ERROR: kde-base/kdegraphics-3.1.4 failed. !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 137, Exitcode 2 !!! died running emake, kde_src-compile:make
As advised I run # emerge kde
It starts unpacking kdegraphics-3.1.4 tarball downloaded previously from Gentoo website.
I have no idea why it was interrupted nor whether there will be no further problem on reinstalling kdegraphics-3.1.4. I will watch its progress.
B.R. Stephen
Ernie Schroder wrote:
On Saturday 18 October 2003 06:58 am, Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi all folks,
I have been running installation of KDE for 36+ hours and still could not see my shore ahead. Those pre-compile packages on CD2 seems not helpful.
I ran # emerge sync then # emerge -k kde
it indicated 60 packages to be installed. But most time I saw it downloading packages from Gentoo website. Last time, about 3 hours ago, I saw 33/60 packages being downloaded. The download time took about 3 minutes but the compilation took lengthy time.
If accidentally the PC is interrupted can I re-do KDE installation without starting from the beginning. If YES then HOW.
Another problem is Xwindow can't be started which has been posted in my previous email. In the worst case can I re-do installation of xfree without starting from the very beginning, skipping those packages already installed?
Kindly advise. Thanks in advance.
B.R. Stephen
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The kde build does seem a bit slow, though you are making progress. Yes, if the build is interupted, you can start from where you left off by simply issuing the command "emerge kde" It will start with the package it was working on when interupted.
After you emerged xfree. if you had done "startx" you probably would have seen an ugly grey screen with an "X" in the middle that would move with your mouse. This is normal and indicates success. Xfree it self has no window manager and, by itself is pretty much useless.
I've never used the precompiled packages so I can't help with why your machine is building everything from source. Perhaps "emerge can't find the packages on your harddrive?
From man emerge:
--usepkg (-k) Tells emerge to use binary packages (from $PKGDIR) if they are available, thus possi- bly avoiding some time-consuming compiles. This option is useful for CD installs; you can export PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/packages and then use this option to have emerge "pull" binary packages from the CD in order to sat- isfy dependencies.
--usepkgonly (-K) Behaves just as --usepkg except that this will only emerge binary packages. All the binary packages must be available at the time of dependency calculation or emerge will simply abort.
If I were you, I would interupt the build at a point where it has just finished a pachage and restart it using the --usepkgonly (-K)
option. If this fails, portage cannot locate the packages and you'll have to look back through the instructions to find where you should have them. At that point you have the choice to either fix the package directory or continue as you have been. The advantage in continuing as you are now is that you will have the latest packages merged and updating will be much quicker.
Another glitch I just thought of is that you may not be able to merge precompiled packages at this point as they will conflict with later versions you have built from source.
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