* [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"
@ 2014-09-14 15:46 Joseph
2014-09-14 15:53 ` Alan McKinnon
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From: Joseph @ 2014-09-14 15:46 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver"
checking for bc... no
configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a standard
part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your vendor
has grown a clue.
What is "bc"?
--
Joseph
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* Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"
2014-09-14 15:46 [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc" Joseph
@ 2014-09-14 15:53 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-14 15:56 ` Ivan Viso Altamirano
2014-09-14 15:57 ` Samuli Suominen
2 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Alan McKinnon @ 2014-09-14 15:53 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 14/09/2014 17:46, Joseph wrote:
> I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver"
>
> checking for bc... no
>
> configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a standard
> part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your vendor
> has grown a clue.
>
> What is "bc"?
>
Before I tell you what it is, please describe in detail the exact steps
you already took to find out what it is.
I'm not being funny, the 2 most obvious places to go look return the
correct answer at the top of the list.
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
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* Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"
2014-09-14 15:46 [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc" Joseph
2014-09-14 15:53 ` Alan McKinnon
@ 2014-09-14 15:56 ` Ivan Viso Altamirano
2014-09-14 16:17 ` Mick
2014-09-14 15:57 ` Samuli Suominen
2 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Ivan Viso Altamirano @ 2014-09-14 15:56 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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Google/Duckduckgo/bing Is your friend ;) justo emerge bc . (Sended from
phone)
El 14/09/2014 17:36, "Joseph" <syscon780@gmail.com> escribió:
> I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver"
>
> checking for bc... no
>
> configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a standard
> part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your vendor
> has grown a clue.
>
> What is "bc"?
>
> --
> Joseph
>
>
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* Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"
2014-09-14 15:46 [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc" Joseph
2014-09-14 15:53 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-14 15:56 ` Ivan Viso Altamirano
@ 2014-09-14 15:57 ` Samuli Suominen
2014-09-14 16:16 ` [gentoo-user][SOLVED] " Joseph
2 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Samuli Suominen @ 2014-09-14 15:57 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 14/09/14 18:46, Joseph wrote:
> I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver"
>
> checking for bc... no
>
> configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a
> standard
> part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your
> vendor
> has grown a clue.
>
> What is "bc"?
>
It's calculator application and it's listed as a dependency in the
xscreensaver ebuild in the official Portage tree:
ssuominen@null ~/gentoo-x86/x11-misc/xscreensaver $ grep sys-devel/bc
*.ebuild
xscreensaver-5.29.ebuild: sys-devel/bc
xscreensaver-5.30.ebuild: sys-devel/bc
So no way to "emerge xscreensaver" without having sys-devel/bc getting
installed first.
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* Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"
2014-09-14 15:57 ` Samuli Suominen
@ 2014-09-14 16:16 ` Joseph
2014-09-14 17:43 ` Mick
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Joseph @ 2014-09-14 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 09/14/14 18:57, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>
>On 14/09/14 18:46, Joseph wrote:
>> I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver"
>>
>> checking for bc... no
>>
>> configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a
>> standard
>> part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your
>> vendor
>> has grown a clue.
>>
>> What is "bc"?
>>
>
>It's calculator application and it's listed as a dependency in the
>xscreensaver ebuild in the official Portage tree:
>
>ssuominen@null ~/gentoo-x86/x11-misc/xscreensaver $ grep sys-devel/bc
>*.ebuild
>xscreensaver-5.29.ebuild: sys-devel/bc
>xscreensaver-5.30.ebuild: sys-devel/bc
>
>So no way to "emerge xscreensaver" without having sys-devel/bc getting
>installed first.
The problem was sys-devel/bc. I had it installed.
Re-emerging sys-devel/bc solved the problem.
--
Joseph
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* Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"
2014-09-14 15:56 ` Ivan Viso Altamirano
@ 2014-09-14 16:17 ` Mick
2014-09-14 16:39 ` Ivan Viso Altamirano
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Mick @ 2014-09-14 16:17 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On Sunday 14 Sep 2014 16:56:57 Ivan Viso Altamirano wrote:
> Google/Duckduckgo/bing Is your friend ;) justo emerge bc . (Sended from
> phone)
Since bc is a dependency, the ebuild would pull it in and install it as part
of installing xscreensaver - as Samuli has already pointed out. Therefore
there is no need to manually emerge bc.
--
Regards,
Mick
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* Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"
2014-09-14 16:17 ` Mick
@ 2014-09-14 16:39 ` Ivan Viso Altamirano
0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Ivan Viso Altamirano @ 2014-09-14 16:39 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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I was wrong and right at the same time . Nice
El 14/09/2014 18:17, "Mick" <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> escribió:
> On Sunday 14 Sep 2014 16:56:57 Ivan Viso Altamirano wrote:
> > Google/Duckduckgo/bing Is your friend ;) justo emerge bc . (Sended from
> > phone)
>
> Since bc is a dependency, the ebuild would pull it in and install it as
> part
> of installing xscreensaver - as Samuli has already pointed out. Therefore
> there is no need to manually emerge bc.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
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* Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"
2014-09-14 16:16 ` [gentoo-user][SOLVED] " Joseph
@ 2014-09-14 17:43 ` Mick
2014-09-14 17:58 ` Joseph
0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Mick @ 2014-09-14 17:43 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On Sunday 14 Sep 2014 17:16:09 Joseph wrote:
> On 09/14/14 18:57, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> >On 14/09/14 18:46, Joseph wrote:
> >> I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver"
> >>
> >> checking for bc... no
> >>
> >> configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a
> >> standard
> >>
> >> part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your
> >>
> >> vendor
> >>
> >> has grown a clue.
> >>
> >> What is "bc"?
> >
> >It's calculator application and it's listed as a dependency in the
> >xscreensaver ebuild in the official Portage tree:
> >
> >ssuominen@null ~/gentoo-x86/x11-misc/xscreensaver $ grep sys-devel/bc
> >*.ebuild
> >xscreensaver-5.29.ebuild: sys-devel/bc
> >xscreensaver-5.30.ebuild: sys-devel/bc
> >
> >So no way to "emerge xscreensaver" without having sys-devel/bc getting
> >installed first.
>
> The problem was sys-devel/bc. I had it installed.
> Re-emerging sys-devel/bc solved the problem.
This sounds like something was wrong/corrupt in your system. Did you re-
emerge it with -1aDv? If not then unmerge it and then emerge it using -1, or
just emerge xscreensaver, which ought to bring it in. To be honest there are
lot of programs that depend on bcm so any of them would bring it in as a
dependency.
--
Regards,
Mick
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* Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"
2014-09-14 17:43 ` Mick
@ 2014-09-14 17:58 ` Joseph
0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Joseph @ 2014-09-14 17:58 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 09/14/14 18:43, Mick wrote:
>On Sunday 14 Sep 2014 17:16:09 Joseph wrote:
>> On 09/14/14 18:57, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>> >On 14/09/14 18:46, Joseph wrote:
>> >> I get a strange error when trying to emerge xscreensaver"
>> >>
>> >> checking for bc... no
>> >>
>> >> configure: error: Your system doesn't have "bc", which has been a
>> >> standard
>> >>
>> >> part of Unix since the 1970s. Come back when your
>> >>
>> >> vendor
>> >>
>> >> has grown a clue.
>> >>
>> >> What is "bc"?
>> >
>> >It's calculator application and it's listed as a dependency in the
>> >xscreensaver ebuild in the official Portage tree:
>> >
>> >ssuominen@null ~/gentoo-x86/x11-misc/xscreensaver $ grep sys-devel/bc
>> >*.ebuild
>> >xscreensaver-5.29.ebuild: sys-devel/bc
>> >xscreensaver-5.30.ebuild: sys-devel/bc
>> >
>> >So no way to "emerge xscreensaver" without having sys-devel/bc getting
>> >installed first.
>>
>> The problem was sys-devel/bc. I had it installed.
>> Re-emerging sys-devel/bc solved the problem.
>
>This sounds like something was wrong/corrupt in your system. Did you re-
>emerge it with -1aDv? If not then unmerge it and then emerge it using -1, or
>just emerge xscreensaver, which ought to bring it in. To be honest there are
>lot of programs that depend on bcm so any of them would bring it in as a
>dependency.
>--
>Regards,
>Mick
Good suggestion, I did it with -1 adding D will not hurt.
--
Joseph
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