Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Saturday 27 August 2005 12:27, Harry Putnam wrote:
I would like to see an outline of what it takes to update the whole
system but as I recall its all in gentoo documentation but will
require quite extensive reading.
emerge sync
emerge world -u
Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
Well according to the installed docu.. there is supposed to be:
From the `Usage' html page: (Note the last item)
Now run bbgallery to create the galleries. Without any parameters it
will use the following default values:
* Look
Running emerge -v -p world -u shows:
Calculating world dependencies ^H^H ...done!
[blocks B ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 (is blocking
net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00)
However any attempt to unmerge net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 gets this error:
root # emerge -v -C net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00
--- Couldn't find
Thanks to all and esp. Holly for the detailed explanation. Quite a
good setup once one understands the underpinnings.
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Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Saturday 27 August 2005 13:03, Harry Putnam wrote:
Thanks for the simple outline... That was so encouraging that I'm
going to get this done this morning...
Thanks for the push.
No problem, it really is that simple.
Getting it done this morning
Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Getting it done this morning is another matter, going several months
without an update is likely to put you a long way back, meaning lots
to compile. Thankfully you can just leave it going in the
background. I almost always run
This appears now to
Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago. As I needed the
gallery at that instance, I just specified the template on the command
line:
bbgallery -T monochrome
That doesn't work here:
reader bbgallery -T monochrome
ERROR: Templates not found:
Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I had searched portage before posting about gimp-perl. It's not in
my portage tree which is somewhat out of date. That led me to think
it was not available via the normal gentoo channel hence my attempts
to use cpan to install it.
emerge gimp-perl
How can
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
emerge gimp-perl
How can I get that package without a full on update of portage which I
don't want to do right now?
I've downloaded todays snapshot of protage and extracted
gimp-perl. Placed it in my portage tree. Then unmasked it with
package.keyword
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
After installing gimp-perl and all its dependancies I've unmerged
bbgallery and re emerged it.
The result is exactly as before... I've made no progress at all.
cd to directory of *.jpg
reader bbgallery -T monochrome
ERROR: Templates not found: monochrome
First if this ends up being a nearly duplicate post... my apologies.
I tried a similar version from a different machine that has apparently
not made it to the server.
I recently went looking for image manipulation tools in general and
web gallery software in particular... I found in portage
Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No templates at all.
Any one here have experience with this tool or can suggest a debugging
approach.
First, file it as a bug as the ebuild would be incomplete.
Second, you might need to build the package from scratch in order to
determine if it
Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rennie deGraaf schreef:
What command does one use to find what package(s) provide a particular
file, given that that particular file is not present on my system? For
example, I need a program called foobar, but don't know what package
provides it.
Oscar Carlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why are you using some external program when there is a superb support for
keybindnings in kwin?
Everything you need for keybindings is avalible in kcontrol :)
It is a superior setup. It can be hand edited in minutes. Mass
entries of 20 to 30
This question is not gentoo specific but really a more general
question about date manipulation.
Like many people I use the `date' command to set file names that need to
be unique by using one of the specially formatted commands, to output
something like:
img_080905_103343.jpg
Which is
Marco Matthies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
Group,
I use xbindkeys to associate keyboard keys with programs. Most of
them work as expected but a few don't.
I wondered if there is debug output going somewhere when an xbindkey
combo is used and the program can't or won't start.
Running KDE-3.3.2 where might I find any output from
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Group,
I use xbindkeys to associate keyboard keys with programs. Most of
them work as expected but a few don't.
I wondered if there is debug output going somewhere when an xbindkey
combo is used and the program can't or won't start.
Running KDE
Nagatoro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://gentooexperimental.org/script/repo/list
can this repo be accessed with emerge allowing packages to be installed?
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Paul Varner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
Your /etc/portage/profile/package.provided file is correct.
Unfortunately, in this case, the dependency is on virtual/emacs.
Add virtual/emacs app-editors/emacs-cvs
to /etc/portage/profile/virtuals and it will quit trying to install
emacs. This
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
I use kde and when I try the lan Browse option in konqueror I get a message
box telling me that The Lisa daemon does not appear to be running.
This is after using the guided setup option in control panel and stopping and
starting lisa.
Has anybody
Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/etc/portage/profile/package.provided
Where to look to learn about the required syntax?
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Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While it would mean re-installing emacs, you could use the emacs-cvs
ebuild which builds emacs from cvs head. To keep up-to-date you just
have to re-emerge and you will build with the latest changes.
How can I get a look at what and how stuff gets
Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While it would mean re-installing emacs, you could use the emacs-cvs
ebuild which builds emacs from cvs head. To keep up-to-date you just
have to re-emerge and you will build with the latest changes.
Sorry to hammer on this so much... I haven't been
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 31 May 2005 22:22:29 -0500
Harry Putnam wrote:
An
example might be that if emacs isn't installed at /usr/local its
already outside the standard emacs install.
and you have moved outside the standard gentoo install i suspect :)
Not sure what
Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/etc/portage/profile/package.provided
And if no `profile' directory exists, is that something one creates or
is it put there by some package?
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Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
/etc/portage/profile/package.provided
Regards,
Jason Stubbs
Paul Varner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
man portage
Specifically for the package.provided file it wants the package and
version that you have installed outside of portage.
Paul Varner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/etc/portage/profile/package.provided
Where to look to learn about the required syntax?
man portage
Specifically for the package.provided file it wants the package and
version that you have installed outside of portage. For example: If you
Paul Varner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
man portage
Specifically for the package.provided file it wants the package and
version that you have installed outside of portage. For example: If you
have downloaded and installed your own kernel from kernel.org, placing
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is /etc/portage/profile/package.provided the correct address for
this?
In `man portage' I see reference to:
/etc/make.profile/package.provided
Gack I see its a symlink ... but now I'm even more confused. The
symlink points to:
/usr/portage/profiles
I want to install emacs-w3m. I have already built an emacs install by
hand from cvs emacs tar ball. I always build emacs myself.
Running emerge -v -p emacs-w3m shows:
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N] app-editors/emacs-21.4
Group,
Is there a way to convert reiserfs to ext3 without data loss
(or having to move data)?
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Recently switched from using ext3 (under fedora) to reiserfs (under
gentoo).
I'm noticing what seems to be really long processing times for certain
file manipulation chores.
Examples might be `du -sh' against several hundred MB or `rm -rf' in
same manner. I didn't think to time the du part
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How did you do this conversion? Reiserfs exhibits poor performance if
you simply extract an archive of a different filesystem.
I installed gentoo with reiserfs as fs of choice.
So the files being rm'ed were built on reiserfs from the start.
I'm
Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
On Sunday 17 April 2005 15:52, Harry Putnam wrote:
Recently switched from using ext3 (under fedora) to reiserfs (under
gentoo).
I'm noticing what seems to be really long processing times for certain
file manipulation chores.
Not sure
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
[Repost alert!! - reposted from several days ago]
I haven't gotten any nibbles on my original post on this topic. Is it
inappropriate here?
I want to have emacs like keybindings inside the mozilla locator box.
I think
Sorry to post this here but I've already contacted the listserver with
the info address and faq address. Neither of those sources have any
info about this.
I want to subscribe here but get no messages delivered. The
subscription would be so as to enable posting thru news.gmane.org's
mail to
Using most recent KDE desktop
(do not have full gnome fileset installed)
Where can I set a config to make the `location' box on mozilla accept
bashlike (emacs like) keybindings?
Currently
Ctrl-e (go to end of line)
Ctrl-a (go to beginning of line)
Ctrl-k (delete to right of cursor)
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