Another stoopid noobie

ergodic · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2002 Posts: 33 Location: San Diego

This is my third attempt to install Gentoo...

Good Things first
Got Python, g++, Numeric to work
Got KDE and themes to make look pretty
Got opera (did not work with portge thought, I did the g'ld make install make dance...)
Got Apache and SSL to display my stuff

Bad things
Sound (Is compilled on the kernel but cannot modprobe )
PHP -> ebuild /var/db/pkg/dev-lang/php-4.1.2-r7/php-4.1.2-r7.ebuild config) Just says that config is not a valid option !!!
Mozilla -> emerge mozilla took forever ( like 3 hours ) before I kill it
Python -> couldnt load Tkinter sooo I installed Tc/Tck and even after that python couldnt import those modules. They say that I have to reinstall- reconfigure `python so I decided uninstall-reinstall,well the unmerge part broke portage ... I was on the directory by the time and it aborted it

Now I dont have either python nor portage
this is what I have instead

luis@sqlla luis $ emerge
/usr/bin/env: python2.2: No such file or directory
luis@sqlla luis $ python
bash: python: command not found

I dont know i fI should reinstall everything (its kinda fun) or fix portage which can be NOT fun

Anyways I am open to pointers suggestions rants etc

rac · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 2:23 am Post subject:

Try a forum search for "portage AND rescue AND tarball" for how to fix your portage. Mozilla does take forever to compile - it is a huge program - be patient. If you have sound support compiled directly into your kernel, you don't need to call modprobe. You only need modprobe if you compile something as a module.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Perhaps /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/README.RESCUE
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delta407 · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 2:32 am Post subject:

Nah, he toasted Python. Check out this thread.
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ergodic · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2002 Posts: 33 Location: San Diego

Fixed portage, thank you for the link

Now PHP, it cannot configure it

bash-2.05a# ebuild /var/db/pkg/dev-php/php-4.2.1-r3/php-4.2.1-r3.ebuild config
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: pkg_config: command not found

What I am doing wrong?

morgant · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 37

Well, sadly I don't know what you're doing wrong (or if in fact you did anything wrong), but I just installed Gentoo on my server last night and when I went to run the ebuilds after the apache install I get the same error. I'll let you know if I figure anything out. Hopefully someone posts an idea...
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morgant · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2002 Posts: 37

So here's the deal (in case you did figure it out yet). The desktop guide is now thoroughly out of date. The reason that running ebuild /var/db/.../php*.edbuild is because that is now the command line interpreter. Php for Apache is now referred to as mod_php. If you emerge that and then run ebuild /var/db/.../mod_php.ebuild config you should be good to go. If I'm not being clear, then you might want to read this post. That's how I figured it out.
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ergodic · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2002 Posts: 33 Location: San Diego

I guess someone has to update the webpage....

I'll try that on Monday (righ now I am on my home's SuSE 8 box. Love it but settin' everything up was soooooo boring (it just worked)