[SOLVED] Finished installation by the book but

[Reiner6]

so i finished instalattion part of the handbook, this is my first time working with gentoo or any linux whatsoever. So i tried the next part of the handbook that is portage intro and installing software
so i tried merge --ask app-office/gnumeric as per example sujest but tons of errors appear, such as

[Gnubyte]

Really, if this is your first try working with a linux system, is is a wise decision, even if not simple beginning with Gentoo. Anyway, learning Gentoo philosophy is a good choice in the way to master GNU/Linux.

So, if you want some help, perhaps could you post us some more information like:

• The content of the log file you pointed
  
• your /etc/portage/make.conf file, just in case of mistake
  
• your /var/lib/portage/world file, to let us figure out where you are
  
• Tell us if you rebooted correctly
  

With this kind of information, it will be much easier to answer.
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Padawan Gentoo, endoctriné par un maître

[Reiner6]

I don't really know how to check those things, i just started this weekend with Gentoo, but so far the reboot was ok, i had no errors until tried to install any software

[Tony0945]

[Budoka]

[Reiner6]

[NeddySeagoon]

Reiner6,

If app-office/gnumeric is your first emerge after you have booted your own Gentoo for the first time, there are a few things to be aware of.

1) Well done! the hard bit is behind you.
2) Gentoo gives you only what you ask for and the things you need to support what you asked for. The converse in true too. If you've not asked for it, you don't have it.
3) app-office/gnumeric is a graphical program and you don't yet have a GUI.

Install, configure and test your GUI of choice, then come back to app-office/gnumeric
You are going to need Xorg to draw your windows and widgets.
After that, you need a Window Manage or a Desktop Environment to tell Xorg what to draw.

Once that tested and working, come back to app-office/gnumeric.

Gentoo works best when you build on something that works. That way, when, not if, you break it, you can undo your last changes.

Gentoo does not respond well to reinstalls, unlike a binary OS. That path only provides opportunities to make a different mistake.
You will learn from making it work the way you want.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

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those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[Reiner6]

Thanks NeddySeagoon, i was really lost on what to do next after reboot.

That went smooth, and now i tried to run GNOME, but i try

[Hu]

Budoka: there is no need to teach a newbie to engage in Useless Use Of Cat. When the input is a single file, the input should be provided by redirecting stdin of the command, not by piping the cat of a file to that command. For example, wgetpaste < /etc/portage/make.conf. For commands that accept the filename as an argument, naming the file can be better than redirecting stdin.

Reiner6: Portage can accept /etc/portage/package.use (and some other configuration files) as either a file or as a directory. If it is a directory, it is treated as a virtual file consisting of the concatenation of the files in the directory. The error you received means you made /etc/portage/package.use a directory. You must write your per-package USE settings to a file of your choosing in that directory.

[Reiner6]

[ian.au]

Reiner6,

Firstly: Make sure you have set up your profile to be a .../desktop/gnome

[Reiner6]

[ian.au]

A loaded question that can be but to follow the handbook, gnome/systemd

[Reiner6]

so i finally ended installing /gnome/systemd
Now that i run emerge --ask gnome-base/gnome it shows the Would you like to add these changes to your config files? and i put yes and first it shows

[ian.au]

I'm not much help with genkernel as I don't use it, is:

[ct85711]

[Budoka]

[Budoka]

[Reiner6]

So i was able to start

[ian.au]

[cwr]

On an elderly Thinkpad T61 (Intel T7300 at 2GHz) building X takes about an hour,
building Gnome takes about four hours thirty minutes, and building the full set of
packages I use takes about twelve hours.

That's from a standard Stage 3 command line; you can allow another hour or so
to build various useful tools.

Will

[ian.au]

I had a toshiba p20 laptop that I managed to keep going until a couple of years ago, I think from memory p4 @ 2.8Ghz 2Gb - that used to take around 20hrs to get a working XFCE desktop, I quickly learned to keep the install light on that one.

[Reiner6]

Thanks to everyone for their help!
if anyone wants to know it took about 6 to 10 hours to instal gentoo and gnome took 21 hours and 37 minuts

[ian.au]

On this hardware you probably want a lighter install I ate two hdd's learning that on old laptops, they get a bit warm doing those monster compiles.

[Reiner6]

i have a dell inspiron 1525, so its old, but not thaaaaat old, and since i started everything it has kept its cool