More informative and comprehesive graphic menuconfig tool?

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Wallsandfences · Post by **Wallsandfences** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:12 pm

I'm using menuconfig, and trying to grab some wisdom at pappy's kernelseeds and numerous forum posts.

But still, many explanations of kernel configurations are just double dutch to me -- or simply have no explanation at all.

Is there a more talkative (and possibly gui-based) program?

Rüdiger

ppurka · Post by **ppurka** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 3:10 pm

There are the following nice UI's:

make xconfig - provides a qt4 based interface.
make gconfig - provides a gtk based interface
make nconfig - provides a nicer ncurses based interface.

none of the above is more "informative" than the help you can get by pressing 'h' on any item while running menuconfig.

Wallsandfences · Post by **Wallsandfences** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 3:55 pm

Hi , i get

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emerge -av gconfig

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "gconfig".

emerge: searching for similar names...
emerge: Maybe you meant any of these: virtual/pkgconfig, dev-util/pkgconfig, sys-devel/gnuconfig, net-misc/vconfig?

Ma Google doesn't reveal anything useful as well

Which is gconfig's ebuild?

Rüdiger

Post by **John R. Graham** » Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:03 pm

No ebuild. Just run

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make gconfig

instead of

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make menuconfig

If you're using genkernel, then the command line option is --gconfig.

- John