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aknox2
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 Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 10:36 am Post subject: newbie portage usage question |
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Is it okay to run portage under kde in a window, or will it not be able to update files in use?
(I want to install kde 3.1, but don't want my computer out of action for 26 hours).
If it was to encounter files in use, and not be able to update them, would the emerge fail? Would I have to start again without kde running?
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Carlos
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 10:42 am Post subject: Re: newbie portage usage question |
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| aknox2 wrote: | | Is it okay to run portage under kde in a window, or will it not be able to update files in use? |
It's quite all right, for two reasons. First of all, different KDE builds in Portage are designed to be able to coexist without overwriting each other. Secondly, it's almost never dangerous to install a newer version of a program while an old version is running, since the program and the libraries it uses are loaded into memory when you launch the program, and configuration files are usually read at the beginning. Case in point: not too long ago my C libraries got b0rked, and I couldn't launch most of my applications, but the ones that were already running (and there were quite a few: several terminal windows, a browser, an IM client, an IRC client, and more) had no problems at all.
The one thing you'll want to do is to nice the emerge process so that your system stays responsive; e.g. | Code: | | nice -n 19 emerge -u kde |
This will give emerge a low priority for CPU time, so that it'll 'get out of the way' when you try to do something else that's CPU intensive.
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sepp2k
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 10:44 am Post subject: |
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KDE-3.1 will be installed in another director than kde-3.0 so you can, run kde3.0 while installung kde-3.1 (but you should unmerge kde-3.0 after installing kde-3.1).
Edit: Carlos was faster |
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aknox2
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 10:57 am Post subject: |
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| thanks for your prompt replies! |
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