tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55498922011-04-22T08:44:13.357+09:30Notes on installing and using gentoo (http://gentoo.org/)mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087017890254508090noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549892.post-1118398481375951602005-06-10T19:41:00.000+09:302005-06-10T19:44:41.380+09:30

app-portage/cfg-update appears to be a useful replacement for etc-update. There is a useful forum post

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Some programs to think about: Firestarter - a graphical firewall configuration app. flpsed - postscript editor bluefish - html editor dovecot - secure imap/pop

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Spent some effort updating my xorg.conf file to support a logitech mx310 mouse. This solution uses the event manager in the kernel (evdev). Definition of the InputDevice in the xorg.conf file: Section "InputDevice" # cat /proc/bus/input/devices Identifier "UsbMouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "evdev" Option "Dev Name" "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"

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Worked out how to manually emerge the rekall ebuild provided in bug 34169 this morning: check that /etc/make.conf has the line PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage create the /usr/local/portage/dev-db/rekall directory copy the ebuild to the directory change to the directory and run ebuild rekall-2.2.0_beta1.ebuild digest emerge rekall

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I code mostly in java, so I followed the Gentoo Java Guide to setup my development envirionment. The first step was to emerge the packages that I use: Sun Activation Framework (ebuild) Mail (ebuild) Apache Software Foundation (mainly from Jakarta) ant (ebuild) commons-beanutils (ebuild) commons-fileupload (ebuild) commons-collections (ebuild) commons-net (

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After being slightly annoyed with the number of configation files that needed updating after running emerge --updateonly world I did a little research (emerge --help config, and decided to add CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/sane.d" variable to the /etc/make.conf file.

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Spent several hours of frustration, attempting to get pptpclient to a vpn provided by a watchguard firebox. The connection would be established, but I was unable to ping any hosts on the network, so I wasted time playing with routing commands to no effect. Finally stumbled across this line in the log (note it appears only after the connection is established): Unsupported protocol 0x2145 received

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According to this post compiling with -02 is faster than -03. This post suggests some other options, but as usual your milage may vary (ummy).

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The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: June 23rd, 2003 contained several pointers to configuring an email system for the home network. In the end I chose Email System for the Home Network, prepared by beowulf. It uses postfix as a modern MTA that is compatible with Sendmail procmail as a mail delivery agent/filter courier-imap as an imap deamon that works with maildir directories spamassassin to

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Discovered tonight that the home partition really was too small. Fortunately I did have some spare disk space that I was saving for a rainy day, so I formatted it using reiser file system, and used: tar --create --file - software | tar --extract --preserve-permissions --same-owner --directory /home2 software to move the data. After updating /etc/fstab and rebooting everything is happy. And it

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Found this forum thread very useful for configuration of the Network Time Protocol (NTP). In the end I followed more of the comments by RavVan.

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The following options should improve performance of a Radeon graphics card: Option "AGPMode" "4" Option "EnablePageFlip" "True" Option "AGPFastWrite" "True" You can find more options by typing: man radeon I have dual monitors and for some reason this line:     (WW) RADEON(1): Only one monitor detected, Second screen will NOT be created started appearing, and the desktop was cloned.

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Been having a bit of fun with upgrading to KDE 3.1.2 over the last couple of days. Found the KDE 3.0 splash screen was showing, not the KDE 3.1 splash screen. In the end I fixed this by deleting the files 50kdedir-3.0.4 and 65kdelibs-3.0.4 from the /etc/env.d directory and rerunning env-update. This fixed that problem. Next problem is that a local user cannot run Konsole (root has no trouble)

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emerge -e world finally completed successfully. Had to download a couple of java packages from Sun, but apart from that no issues. The next step is to install Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) The Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide provided an excellent reference. Just need to remember to recompile the alsa module everytime I recompile the kernel. make clean ; make dep ; make bzImage modules

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app-text/docbook-sgml-utils failed to build this time :-(. Complaining about being unable to open files /usr/share/sgml/xhtml1/xhtml.soc and /usr/share/sgml/html401/HTML4.cat. I emerged app-text/xhtml1 and app-text/html401, followed by app-text/docbook-sgml-utils and this appeared to fix the problem :-). Thinking I had found a bug I unmerged all three packages, and then emerged app-text/

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Apparrently bonobo-activition doesn't like parallel compilation as it throws an unfinished jobs error. Changed -j3 to -j1 and all is happy.

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This forum topic contains a suggestion for an enhancement to emerge which will continue fetching files while it processing an ebuild. For an emerge containing multiple packages (ie fresh installs) this has the potential to save significant time, because required files for later ebuilds will most probably have already been downloaded.

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Next I ran into the sgml/index.html problem building dev-libs/atk, which is reported in bug 17448 and discussed in atk-1.2.2 fails at building index.sgml. Instructions for fixing sgml are helpful, but I only worked when I also unmerged dev-util/gtk-doc as mentioned in comment 14 of the bug. time to rerun emerge -e world (315 packages) :-)

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Gentoo Linux Desktop Configuration Guide provides a good guide to setting up x-windows, kde and gnome. Had some frustration building x11-misc/ttmkfdir with "Waiting for ttmkfdir.o.lock to be removed", which is discussed in this forum topic. Finally fixed it by creating this symbolic link: ln -s /usr/tmp2/portage/ttmkfdir-3.0.9 /usr/tm/portage/ttmkfdir-3.0.9.

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The Gentoo Framebuffer, Bootsplash (12VT) & Grubsplash How-To is a guide to beautifying linux by adding splash screens and background logos.

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Gentoo is a linux distribution that can be "automatically optimised and customised for just about any application or need. This blog contains information on my experiences upgrading my installation of Gentoo to 1.4, after not doing much emerging for 9 months. Much of this points to documentation the gentoo website so that I can find the information at a later date. The place to start is with

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