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On Monday 29 September 2008 15:15:33 BRM wrote: |
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> I took the dive on my laptop this weekend and installed Gentoo 2008.0. I |
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> started Friday night and used the stage3 and latest-portage. The initial |
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> install when okay, until I started emerging applications - specifically X |
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> windows/KDE/etc; and that is the point I am still working on. |
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> The problem seems to be that emerge/portage is not detecting dependencies |
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> correctly, or rather - a dependency says it is installed but the ebuilds |
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> for other packages that depend on it do not find the files it supposedly |
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> installed. For example, I have had to manually emerge nearly all the X |
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> protocol (e.g. xproto, xkbproto, etc.) packages. |
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> I've installed several other gentoo systems, but not with 2008.0 directly |
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> like this - my last two were installed under 2007.0 and upgraded to 2008.0 |
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> profiles. The only bug reports I come across seem to indicate broken |
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> e-builds, but that does seem to be the case as "emerge --search <program>" |
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> indicates it is installed when in fact it might not be which leads me to |
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> believe that the local portage database (?) is somehow broken or |
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> something... |
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No, the portage tree is just fine. |
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Sounds like you emerged xorg-server, which gives you the ... Xorg Server :-) |
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To get everything else, you should have installed the xorg-x11 package. It's |
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a -meta package whose sole purpose is to install a bunch of other packages. |
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To check if your portage tree is wonky, run emerge --sync |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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