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On Sep 28, 2005, at 5:11 AM, Michael Kjorling wrote: |
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> On 2005-09-28 14:46 +0530, ranade.vikram@×××××.com wrote: |
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>> Is X already installed? (the system boots to a text login) |
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> Most likely. I did a stage 3 installation of 2005.1 a few days ago and |
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> ended up getting both X and a whole bunch of other stuff installed. |
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> Chances are you have it, too. |
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A stage 3 will not install X, unless you do emerge something after |
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install that requires X....like when I did an emerge kde-meta...that |
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got X installed, then kde and xdm, etc. |
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> "etcat -s x11" will tell you for sure. If not, doing "emerge xorg-x11" |
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> as root will install it. |
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>> how do i start X? |
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> Log in, then issue the command "startx" (no, really!). |
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> If you want the system to boot to a graphical login, log in as root |
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> and issue the command "rc-update add xdm default" to add the X display |
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> manager (xdm) to the default runlevel. |
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>> How do I install new software ? (gnome and so on) |
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> Use "emerge", preferably with the "-a" (--ask) option so that you have |
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> a chance to bail out before it installs everything and the kitchen |
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> sink if you don't want it to. |
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> "emerge -s" (--search) will search for a package with a name |
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> containing the given string. See "man emerge" for more possibilities. |
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> Michael Kjörling, michael@××××××××.com - http://michael.kjorling.com/ |
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