[gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"

[gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"

[Joseph]

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

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"

[Alan McKinnon]

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

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"

[Ivan Viso Altamirano]

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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"

[Mick]

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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"

[Ivan Viso Altamirano]

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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] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"

[Samuli Suominen]

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.

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"

[Joseph]

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

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] xscreensaver - error missing "bc"

[Mick]

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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"

[Joseph]

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