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[Asher]

Also, this is how you doooooooooooo it:


It's funny how it's taking about 5 hours to install KDE on Linux, and it took under 5 minutes for KDE on Windows...

[Asher]

By the way, the fonts in KDE3.1 sure are fugly.

[Q Classic]

damn straight.



here's my desktop right now.

[Q Classic]

yeah, the default fonts in kde3.1 leave much to be desired.

which is why in gentoo you generally emerge all of the windows fonts, too.

[Asher]

Anyone here geeky enough to know what that is in my xemacs window?

[Q Classic]

oh, and asher: the 5 hours thing:

in gentoo, you're actually compiling everything. for the windows/cygwin? it's all binaries. so while in linux you're actually compiling it for your computer, in windows/cygwin, you're just copying files.

you do know that portage will allow you to copy kde binaries, though, right? with the GRPs?

[Asher]

Didn't know that.

How do you tell Gentoo to emerge things as binaries?

There's not much point in recompiling AMD64 **** since it's all optimized for the exact same processor anyway...

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Asher
Own goal?

fsck is a *nix command.

Slow today aren't we?

Why do you think I put the -y on the end in the last line?

[Q Classic]

well, do you have the GRP cds? generally, xfree and kde would be on the second of the cds, so.

the command is:

emerge --usepkg package

you'll probably have to copy them over before you can do that, though.
they should be on the second cd in the /All/ folder, and just copy everything into /usr/portage/Packages/All/

[Asher]

I've no idea, because -y isn't a valid option for fsck as far as I know...

[Asher]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
well, do you have the GRP cds? generally, xfree and kde would be on the second of the cds, so.

the command is:

emerge --usepkg package

you'll probably have to copy them over before you can do that, though.
they should be on the second cd in the /All/ folder, and just copy everything into /usr/portage/Packages/All/

I don't think there are GRP CDs for AMD64.

Minimal and Universal only -- single CDs.

[Q Classic]

i'm willing to wager it'll be on the packages cd.

ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribu...2004.0/livecd/

[Q Classic]

-y is a valid switch in mac os. i don' t know what it does, though.

[Q Classic]

who | grep -i blonde | date
talk
cd ~
wine
touch
unzip
strip
finger
mount
fsck
more
yes
gasp
umount
make clean
sleep

[Q Classic]

http://www.osxfaq.com/man/8/fsck.ws

-y means that it assumes yes as the answer to everything.