> Thanks to your help (and 68 pages of Gentoo documentation!) I've
> managed to get Gentoo running. Of course all I have at the moment is a
> command line, I now have to get gnome, kde, openoffice etc...
When you're going to install a package and need to find it:
emerge search <package_name>
There could be more than one out there. OOo is a good example where there is
a Ximianised version.
> To get all this stuff, should I download the package CD as mentioned
> in the docs and then install these from the package CD or can I simply
> type emerge -k gnome, kde etc... and have everything downloaded instantly?
Just decide on what you want and set it running overnight. Be aware that
Xfree86 is being dumped, so:
exodus scripts # emerge -pv xorg-x11
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild R ]
x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r1 -3dfx -3dnow -cjk -debug -debug -dlloader -doc -
ipv6 -mmx +nls +pam -sdk -sse -static 71,880 kB
Total size of downloads: 71,880 kB
Use your USE flags.
Regs.
Iain.
