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From: Leandro Melo de Sales <leandroal@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:31:13
Message-Id: 5bc4c4570612051320h12f4a29at801b87f0d0ced64f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan, do you want to say app-misc/screen portage package?
2
3 2006/12/5, Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>:
4 > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 22:49, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote:
5 > > Ok... thanks Michael and Neil, I didn't know that compiling
6 > > openoffice take to many times. For next big emerges I'll do what you
7 > > suggested.
8 >
9 > For future reference, there are several big packages that can take a
10 > while to compile. OpenOffice is by far the longest, some others are:
11 >
12 > - the old monolithic kde ebuilds. 8 or 9 BIG packages. The newer
13 > kde-meta ebuilds are better in this regard - 200 smaller packages
14 > - kdelibs, even as a single package, it can still be an hour on most
15 > laptops
16 > - glibc if it compiles all locales
17 > - mozilla-firefox and seamonkey. 1.5 to 2 hours is not unusual
18 > - the old monolithic X server. You shouldn't be using this anymore
19 > though
20 > - php
21 >
22 > In general, if the source package is big, then the compile will take a
23 > while. Anything over 30M of source will probably take at least an hour
24 > (give and take some of course)
25 >
26 > And screen is your second best friend ever (Google is the first). It's
27 > so useful you might consider putting it in your shell profile so you
28 > can't forget to use it
29 >
30 > alan
31 >
32 >
33 > >
34 > > Leandro
35 > >
36 > > 2006/12/5, Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>:
37 > > > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 16:46 -0300, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote:
38 > > > > OK. The problem is that I typed "emerge openoffice" in a xterm.
39 > > > > Is it possible to turn X off and continue compilation on console?
40 > > > >
41 > > > > Leandro
42 > > >
43 > > > If you can get to your non-X console (Control+Alt+F1) and from
44 > > > there issue /etc/init.d/xdm stop. I'm not quite sure what would
45 > > > heppen to the progress you've made, since it's in an xterm. You
46 > > > should probably do big emerges like that in a screen...
47 > > >
48 > > > --
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53 >
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