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Ben Sparks wrote: | On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 22:45, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: | |>Check out the ebuild docs at Gentoo's web site to get some information |>about ebuilds. |> |>I activate the PORTDIR_OVERLAY variable in /etc/make.conf, create the |>directory (default is /usr/local/portage) and create a directory |>structure just like /usr/portage has for the program I want to install. |> Put the ebuild in there, create a digest for it and emerge it. Use |>emerge -p to see what problems you might run into and what it might need |>to install as dependencies before you install it. I also like to look |>over the ebuild to see what's in it. |> |> |> |>Roy Kidder wrote: |> |>>I'm new to Gentoo (been using Linux for about 8 years) and I'm trying to |>>find my way around the ebuild/portage/emerge school of thought. |>> |>>I recently found a piece of software where the author supplies a .ebuild |>>file. |>> |>>How can I install the software as a package using this .ebuild file? |>> |>>Thanks in advance, |>>Roy |>> |>> |>> |>>-- |>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list |>> |>> |> |>-- |>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list |> |> | | Just incase you don't know, to build the digest for the ebuild after you | place it in the /usr/local/portage dir you need to issue this command: | "ebuid nameofpackage.ebuild digest". | | | -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list | |
"emerge --digest ebuildname" also works
Also, for overlay dirs, only the "category/package" part of the directory stucture needs to be duplicated.
You may also consider making aliases for installing software not in the portage tree, such as:
alias uemerge="DISTDIR=/tmp emerge --digest"
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