On Sunday 07 March 2004 12:51, you wrote:
> 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.
Thanks! I must admit I skipped some of the instructions for stage 1 and
stage 2 installs, since I was attempting a stage 3 install. Still not sure
why my connection kept getting refused. Maybe the servers were really busy
over there in France, which is where it seemed to be getting a lot of the
packages.
Vaughn
>
> 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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