[ale] Fresh Gentoo, and I'm lost

[L. Wayne James]

Try this:

emerge sync  # ensures your portage directory is up-to-date
emerge -pv kde # shows you what would be installed without the "-p".  
The "v" shows
                         # the "USE" flags for the various packages.  
You can pipe the
                         # result through "less" if you can't read that 
fast.
emerge kde   # installs kde with all it's defaults and dependencies

BTW, plan on a good novel while this builds.  <GRIN>

HTH,
Wayne


Nathan J. Underwood wrote:

>Ok, getting closer.  The install seems to have gone ok (and had my fingers
>worked as expected, would have been completed sooner than it actually was), and
>I've got myself a nice little Gentoo system (did you guys know that Gentoo seems
>to run considerably faster than some other distros?).  Now I'm trying to install
>X (and more importantly Gnome or KDE), and I'm having a little trouble getting
>my mind around emerge.  In my /usr/portage directory, I have several entries for
>x-11 'stuff' (including x11-base, x11-libs, x11-misc, etc), and I also have
>kde-base.  Now, I may already have KDE installed (this is a laptop, and will
>just be a little desktop box for me to tinker with), but I can't find it.  Can
>anyone point me in the right direction of where to go from here?  This is a
>fresh, stage2 install.
>
>  
>

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