You first have to copy all the packages from the CDs to
/usr/portage/packages/, then your copy of the portage tree will match up
with the versions of the packages already on your computer. Once copied,
then run emerge gnome. Please, read the docs more carefully. This is
well covered, last time I looked, and they don't delete stuff from the
docs.
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 07:23, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> On Saturday 06 March 2004 18:07, you wrote:
> > To install Gnome, just run `emerge gnome`. (This is mentioned in the
> > Gentoo Handbook)
>
> True, but I was trying to be lazy and do the install from CD, since I'd
> bothered to download both CD images! But I decided, OK, I'll do it the right
> way. I got the network started and ran the "emerge gnome." The first time
> it aborted due to symbol conflicts (unfortunately I didn't run it to a log.)
> When redoing it, I noticed that many of the servers refused my login as
> "anonymous", that same of the URL's returned a 404 error, and that some of
> the other sites (particularly one with in the ".ro" domain - romania?) didn't
> respond at all. This is with following the instructions on the "Gentoo
> Linux Desktop Configuration Guide." Well, it's been educational. :-) It's
> certainly not critical, since I'm just configuring this as a test platform,
> but if anybody else has any clues, I'd appreciate it.
>
> Vaughn
>
> >
> > On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 13:20, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > > Well, I followed all the instruction and got gnome installed and booting.
> > > (Woo hoo!) I also got X installed and working. But I wanted a real
> > > desktop manager. I went to CD 2 and untarred every package that started
> > > with "gnome." Then I changed the last line of the /etc/rc.conf file to
> > > make the X session a Gnome sesssion. It tries to start, gets the "X"
> > > cursors and fails without any error messages, not to the screen or the
> > > the log file. There was formerly a failure from the "Hostname" command -
> > > the host name is set but the NIC is not yet configured - so I added the
> > > hostname to the "hosts" file, and that went away. I think that's a red
> > > herring, though, or X wouldn't work at all. Do any of you gentoo gurus
> > > out there know if there are any other necessary steps (that I may have
> > > missed) to getting gnome to work?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Vaughn
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