From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmOM1-00014L-Hs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:35:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBE4Y8tA007327; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:34:08 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBE4TomI014675 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:29:51 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmOH0-0004Bl-Ja for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:29:50 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EmOFk-0004Gk-3m for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:28:32 +0100 Received: from adsl-68-74-75-186.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net ([68.74.75.186]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:28:32 +0100 Received: from reader by adsl-68-74-75-186.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:28:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: reader@newsguy.com Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE Conflageration Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:27:32 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87irtsqmd7.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <439F98CE.5010601@sbcglobal.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-74-75-186.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kn6mEqF6tq6vFtQHYRkZTWDnE1s= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 9ef86cd4-2f6c-4e8e-8a8f-6a3164245f88 X-Archives-Hash: 236ad4059db8b87bfa87e25c21e58577 WFisher writes: > I finished installing Gentoo and Xorg successfully. When I went to > install the KDE desktop I decided to install the whole thing by typing > emerge kde-meta, which installs everything possible. After about six > hours I got frustrated and shut of the computer. > > My question is is can I delete what I already did and start over and > just do a basic KDE install? And if so, what directory can I find > that I can delete KDE from? The bad news is it is liable to take over 6 hrs to compile even the kde-base/kdebase stuff. I just came thru this same problem. There was an informative thread that you definitely need to read before going ahead. I started the thread but was not much of a contributer in substance. Others however added lots of really good info about how stuff works with gentoo. Read clear thru this recent thread: Subject: Is there and Alternative to compiling kde? That done, you probably do not need to uninstall much of anything. First learn what packages were installed : equery list|grep kde should give a pretty good picture Understnd that a newer version of kde is just about to become stable I think and so an upgrade is soon in the offing. I think it would make some sense to set a keywords line in /etc/portage/package.keywords like this: kde-base/kdebase ~x86 Assuming you are on x86 architecture. It should cause kde-3.5 to be installed now. Don't worry about having packages from 2 versions installed ... gentoo allows what is called `slotted' packages. So they do not interfere with each other. You can prune back the older stuff later. Once you've read that thread and got some system info on what you have installed. try this: emerge -v -p kde-base/kdebase Take a look at the output maybe you can determing if its ok to go ahead and run that without the -p. If you need to, post the output here but trim it down to kde stuff. And any warnings or errors. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list