Some emerge help would be great pls

scoobydu

Hi

I've search the site and google, without much luck. I'm a debian user who's trying gentoo. Build from stage 1 with no problems, on a dual Athlon 2100+, so far it looks great!!

Help with these questions would be great, thx in adv:

1) How do install an app not in the normal portage tree?

Trying to install waimea-cvs from the following link

http://www.gentoo.org/~sethbc/waimea-cvs-0.4.0.ebuild

Created /usr/local/portage and added PORTDIR_OVERLAY to my make.conf file and produced the digest file.

tried emerge waimea-cvs, but no joy, what command should I use??

2) How do I choose which version to install??

emerge waimea, installs v0.3.3 when v0.4.0 is in the portage tree?

3) How to I install gnoportage? where do I place the source tar? and what command do I use to install it pls

Thx for any help

scooby

bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

scoobydu · Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 3:57 pm Post subject:

bsolar

Thanks for your quick response

I know they were really noob questions but its worked thx!!

emerge kept giving me a message saying it could find the ebuild, but it was my operator error, when I gave it the full path & name of the ebuild, it fetched the cvs and build and installed, very cool

The cvs has 'merged windows' which is 'tabs' like functionality found in fluxbox. I liked flux better because of the tabs, but will try waimea now ....

Gnoportage isn't in emerge, its a source file, and I had read you could install direct from source in gentoo if the source was built with ebuild (I may of misunderstood that though, I know you can ./configure, build and install, but I wanted to do it with emerge, if it was possible)

Thanks again, time to port some more of my debian settings over ..

scoob

bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

Happy to hear that...

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scoobydu · Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 4:09 pm Post subject:

Cool, think its time for a disk backup

phong · Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2003 8:29 pm Post subject:

That ebuild has '~x86' in it's ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, so it'll be masked (i.e. won't emerge) unless you give the full path to th ebuild, edit it to remove the '~' or put '~x86' in your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in your /etc/make.conf.
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