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foxmike
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 Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 8:59 pm Post subject: Emerging packages on a chroot environment (solved) |
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Hi! Here is the situation. I have a family PC with Ubuntu Linux installed on it. Now that I got addict to linux, I want to install Gentoo to learn more about it's internal working and because it looks very interesting. I managed to do the base install with a stage3 tarball in a chroot environment from my Ubuntu installation (as per the Alternate Install Guide). I would now like to install xorg and GNOME, and I expect it to be very long to compile. As I want the computer to be still usable for my wife to go on internet and fetch e-mails, is that possible to emerge xorg and GNOME from that chroot environment, or do I absolutely have to boot into Gentoo to do that job?
Thanks in advance!
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shaumux
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Well i have done that with absolutely no problems but be sure to update the environment before you do that.
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tcunha
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You can also run your X11 apps inside the chroot - e.g. by exporting the DISPLAY environment variable or by using Xnest. Don't forget to mount /dev, /dev/pts, /proc, and /sys.
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mpapis
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| shaumux wrote: | Well i have done that with absolutely no problems but be sure to update the environment before you do that.
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dont forget to: | Code: | | cp /etc/resolv.conf /gentoo/etc/resolv.conf |
before U chroot
btw, i had problems with using X applications (from suse) maybe because of not mounting /dev/pts
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Echo the above, advise using '-o bind' when mounting /dev etc... (not sure what the guide says these days, it's been a while)
No reason to have any trouble compiling in a chroot unless you're up to something odd (e.g. you've a 64 bit chroot on a 32 bit ubuntu? If so, the easy answer is don't!  ) |
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foxmike
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 12:01 am Post subject: |
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Those are wonderfull news!
| Quote: | | Echo the above, advise using '-o bind' when mounting /dev etc... (not sure what the guide says these days, it's been a while) |
Yes, the guide talks about it, but nice to remember!
| Quote: | | dont forget to: cp /etc/resolv.conf /gentoo/etc/resolv.conf before U chroot |
OK, nice to know, I don't think I would have done it...
| Quote: | | You can also run your X11 apps inside the chroot |
I don't think that will be necessary for the moment, but thanks, nice to know as well for the future!
As I just made a base install I am tempt (good word? I'm french canadian...) to install Gentoo 2007 that came out. I'll try all this tonight after work. Thank you for the help!
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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| foxmike wrote: |
As I just made a base install I am tempt (good word? I'm french canadian...) to install Gentoo 2007 that came out. I'll try all this tonight after work. Thank you for the help! |
No point re-installing, once it's up and running the version of the install disk is pretty much meaningless. Want the 'latest version' of gentoo? 'emerge --sync && emerge -uDN world' is generally all that needs to be done. |
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tcunha
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| foxmike wrote: | | As I just made a base install I am tempt (good word? I'm french canadian...) to install Gentoo 2007 that came out. I'll try all this tonight after work. Thank you for the help! |
Check the upgrading doc.
| drwook wrote: | | No point re-installing, once it's up and running the version of the install disk is pretty much meaningless. Want the 'latest version' of gentoo? 'emerge --sync && emerge -uDN world' is generally all that needs to be done. |
And between those two: eselect profile set x.
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