post handbook install guide?

Hello,

Having just complete a handbook install, I'm looking
around for the guides to install a typical workstation.

Is it just

emerge system
emerge -N world (if/when USE flags change)
emerge xorg-x11
emerge kde-meta


Anything I missed (other than the listed packages in
/var/lib/portage/world   from a system resembling
where this laptop should end up?


suggestions?


James



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On 7/26/07, James <wirelesstampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Having just complete a handbook install, I'm looking
> around for the guides to install a typical
workstation.
>
> Is it just
>
> emerge system
> emerge -N world (if/when USE flags change)
> emerge xorg-x11
> emerge kde-meta
>

No need to emerge system, what is the point of that?
emerge -uDN world will update and check for new/changed use
flags... I
do it once in a while (usually weekly).

To install X, KDE, etc, you better go to:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=desktop

Where you'll find guides for almost all Desktop related
resources you
may need, along with complete instructions on setting up and
have X,
KDE, Alsa up and running.

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On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:17:54 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:

> emerge system

No need, you've just installed system.

> emerge -N world (if/when USE flags change)

Yes.

> emerge xorg-x11

That's a meta-package, you only need to install xorg-server.
This
is not pulled in by KDE because a local X server is not a
requirement to
run KDE, although KDE does depend on several X11 libraries.

> emerge kde-meta

Yes, assuming you want to include all of KDE, including the
kitchensync,
otherwise emerge the individual packages you need.


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On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:53:23 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:

> One more question. I remember some time ago somebody
had a slick
> script or method to compile the apps listed in the
world file,
> from an existing system to the new system,
> all together at once, rather that typing in all of
those app
> names into one giant emerge command.

emerge -av $(cat /path/to/oldworld)


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On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:01:15 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:

> Where do I read about what all is in xorg-x11 versus
xorg-server(which
> is all that kde-meta needs?)?  What exactly does
kde-meta needs and
> such....

emerge kde-meta -pv should show you all that KDE needs.


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Hello James,

> Yep, that is what I thought to but it fails. When I
issue
> 'emerge -vN kde-meta'
> 
> I get a long list (as expected) follow by many of these
error
> messages:
> 
> 
> !!! Error: circular dependencies:

That's usually because you've changed your USE flags
substantially from
the default for the stage 3 install. Do an "emerge
-uavDN world" to sort
things out. You don't need -N when emerging a package for
the first time,
there are no existing USE flags to change.


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