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fuzzy
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Joined: 18 Sep 2003
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 Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 10:31 am Post subject: emerge question (-K) |
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Hi,
since i'm quite new to gentoo, i was wondering if i could emerge applications without compiling source .. i learnt that the -K option installs binaries.
Now i would like to intall e.g. openoffice as binaries, since it takes way too long to compile (and i'm not interested in that 1-2% performance gain by compiling it)
How can i install openoffice ?
emerge -K openoffice tells me that no packages or ebuilds could be found after calculating dependencies ..
plz help - even if it's a noobish question 
thx ! |
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hensan
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Joined: 26 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 11:00 am Post subject: |
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For -K to work you have to have the precompiled packages available locally, in $PKGDIR (e.g. /mnt/cdrom/packages if you have the second gentoo installation CD mounted).
If you don't have the second CD but want a precompiled OpenOffice, you have to run:
| Code: | | emerge openoffice-bin. |
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fuzzy
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2003 11:26 am Post subject: |
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thx for the info,
i'm going to reinstall gentoo now i know that
was trying to get debian working but got stuck with configuring x for some odd reason .. |
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