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pollycat
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Joined: 19 May 2003
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 Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 3:11 pm Post subject: newbie portage question |
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Hi there,
I am fairly new to Linux, completely new to Gentoo (just installed it for the first time). So please forgive the newbie nature of this question.
I just did "emerge mozilla" and it only installed version 1.2.1 on my machine. The install went without a hitch but I had expected to get version 1.3.1 as this is the latest stable version and I had always thought that Gentoo used the "latest and greatest" in portage.
So, can anyone tell me why I didn't get 1.3.1 and how I can use portage / "emerge" to get it? I also have an eye on KDE 3.1.2 which I see has just been released, but the portage database only lists KDE 3.1.1a as available.
I have read the Portage documentation and got confused around the "masked e.build" part - sorry!
Thanks to anyone who can point me in the right direction |
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kopfarzt
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Joined: 05 Apr 2003
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Location: Vienna, Austria
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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Mozilla 1.3.1 is in the "unstable" (~x86) branch of Gentoo. You can see that in the KEYWORDS line of an ebuild. If you want to use the ~x86 branch, you have to set | Code: | | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" |
in /etc/make.conf, but it will be valid for ALL packages then.
Consider, that not all ebuilds might work/compile in certain combinations. And prepare for a long emerge -u world. Also, I don't think you can switch back to stable later.
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Skip.za
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 May 2003
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Location: Cape Town, South Africa
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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The 1.3.* series of Mozilla is still masked. To install masked packages all you need to do is give the path to the ebuild script like (assuming you're in /usr/portage already):
| Code: | | emerge -u net-www/mozilla/mozilla-1.3-r1.ebuild |
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nrl
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Joined: 27 Mar 2003
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Location: Glasgow, UK
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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I wouldn't put ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in your /etc/make.conf unless you really want bleeding edge, if you just want the latest mozilla do
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# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p mozilla
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also be sure to always run with the -p (pretend) option first just to see what will happen then when you are happy run without it. |
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pollycat
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 3:51 pm Post subject: Wow! |
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I only posted my question about half an hour ago and already got so many helpful responses - what an amazing community this is!
As I am new to Gentoo, I think I'll stick with the "stable" emerge versions until I know more, then I'll follow the advice here for trying some unstable versions. Thanks to your excellent instructions, I now know how to do this.
emerge thanks-1.0 (=stable) |
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dma
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Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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Location: Charlotte, NC, USA
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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I put this in .profile:
| Code: | function a_emerge ()
{
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge $*
} |
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