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There were two issues that came up when attempting a fresh install of |
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Gentoo: |
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(1) The Gentoo x86 install instructions indicated that toward the end of |
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the installation process, I should execute "etc-update" to update |
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scripts. This turned out to be not in the standard path, and in fact, |
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when I did dig through the file system and attempted to execute this |
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from where it resided, the script threw quite a few errors before |
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exiting (and logging me out!). |
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Is this script obsolete? |
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(2) The Desktop Configuration Guide talks about doing an "emerge |
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--pretend kde" to install kde and X. However, executing this command |
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results in a complaint of circular dependencies. (Before you ask, yes, |
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I did an "emerge sync" to make sure I was up to date.) I attempted to |
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run "emerge kde," thinking that the --pretend option was perhaps causing |
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some issues, but no... the circular dependency problem was there, |
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still. I should note that "emerge --pretend gnome" seems to run just |
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fine, there are no dependency problems. |
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How do I get rid of this circular dependency issue? |
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FYI, I installed from the stage 3 ISO cdrom image. |
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Thank you for creating a fabulous Linux distribution! If I can get |
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these last few things figured out, I think I may stick with Gentoo on my |
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home PC. |
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Sincerely, |
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Robert Poole |
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lionlad@×××××.net |
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rpoole@×××××××.com |
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