[gentoo-user] Re: no ebuild what to do?

[Greg Yasko <gyasko@cox.net>]

maxim wexler <blissfix <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I'm sure this has been covered before but can't seem
> to google for it.
> 
> I'd like to install dekagen but there are no ebuilds
> for it. I suppose I could just unpack it and follow
> the INSTALL doc but is that the appropriate gentoo
> way?
> 
> -mw

There is now an ebuild in Gentoo's bugzilla, so you could use Portdir_Overlay
and provide some much needed testing.

I'd link to the Gentoo Wiki for how to do it but it's been spammed, so here goes
& of course do the commands without the quotes:

Set PORTDIR_OVERLAY in /etc/make.conf to /usr/local/portage

Download dekagen-1.0.2.tar.gz and move it to /usr/portage/distfiles

Login as root and do a "mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/app-cdr/dekagen"

Then cd to the dekagen directory you just created.

Run "ebuild dekagen-1.0.2.ebuild digest" in the dekagen directory.

Add "app-cdr/dekagen ~x86" to /etc/portage/package.keywords

Finally, do an "emerge dekagen" and it should work.

Good luck.

-G.Y.

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