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Gentoo Linux 1.2 Final Released

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Gentoo Linux 1.2 has been released; basic changes include install-related fixes and countless updates to the Portage tree, such as KDE 3.0.1 (CVS 2002-06-04) and GNOME 2 (beta, CVS 2002-06-07) support. Note that GNOME 2 is still masked, but fully useable. New users can find install instructions here and ISOs and build tarballs. Existing users need only to “emerge sync” to be up-to-date.

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25 Comments

  1. 2002-06-10 7:14 pm
    Anonymous

    didn’t i read on OSNews that everything (precompiled) in Gentoo is now using GCC3.1 ?

  2. 2002-06-10 7:43 pm
    Anonymous

    I think I heard about that too, should be interesting if it is and if the performance gains in GCC 3.1 are real.

  3. 2002-06-10 8:03 pm
    Anonymous

    can’t i just install from floppies yet?

  4. 2002-06-10 8:09 pm
    Anonymous

    The 1.3a beta uses gcc 3.1, so I’m guessing 1.2 is staying safe with 2.95.3.

  5. 2002-06-10 8:20 pm
    Anonymous

    Guys, someone please *tar.gz* for me your recent Gentoo /usr/bin/emerge file (after May 10th) and send it over to my email account. Please do not send it as is, because my

    hotmail account will try to render it instead of download it “cleanly”.

    I opened mine with KEdit to change the rsync path and it got nuked because of word wrapping and other problems, so I am now completely stuck without it.. 😮

    Thanks.

  6. 2002-06-10 8:42 pm
    Anonymous

    Eugenia: Isn’t the portage tar.gz source file still in your /usr/portage/distfiles that you can just grab the good copy from it? I’d send you mine but I am not at home. (Although I did install 1.2 yesterday and everything installed great. I’ve got a fresh KDE 3.0.1-2002-06-04 install all set to go.)

  7. 2002-06-10 9:07 pm
    Anonymous

    Ok, got it! Thanks!

    BTW, how do you upgrade kde? If I do “emerge kde” doesn’t do anything, while if I do “emerge –pretend –update system” it does not have KDE among the packages to update or download!

  8. 2002-06-10 9:27 pm
    Anonymous

    ok, thanks.. but 1.3a does not have .iso’s.. how would i go about installing that?

  9. 2002-06-10 9:31 pm
    Anonymous

    If you look at

  • 2002-06-10 9:35 pm
    Anonymous

    #gentoo-user on openprojects.net

    🙂

  • 2002-06-10 9:42 pm
    Anonymous

    yes, i see that now.. added on June 7th.. awesome, i’ll try that out instead of 1.2..

  • 2002-06-10 11:05 pm
    Anonymous

    or, even better emerge -u world

  • 2002-06-11 1:53 am
    Anonymous

    lu_zero, I did a ’emerge –pretend -u world’ and it bails out when it tries to calculate dependancies, because it says it can’t find virtual/opengl for sdl-1.2.4.xxx version. Any ideas what one should do when even the –pretend bails out?

  • 2002-06-11 7:37 am
    Anonymous

    Things like this is why I haven’t had Linux installed since last year. It takes too much time and drains my energy.

    I tried to install RedHat 7.3 on a older machine yesterday. Spent over an hour fighting dependencies because I tried not to install KDE and Gnome and their (millions of) friends. In the end the installation program paniced.

    Maybe I’ll try Slackware 8.1 when it’s done, maybe not.

  • 2002-06-11 10:13 am
    Anonymous

    I don’t follow — you haven’t installed Linux because there are better ways of doing dependencies in Linux? That makes no sense! Why don’t you just use the better dependency system(s)?

    Speaking as someone who has tried to update KDE on RPM systems, I can say that emerge looks to be a lot easier. The only daunting thing for newbies is the text interface, big deal.

    I’ve installed Red Hat without KDE or GNOME without any problems — it’s as simple as unchecking those options. I don’t know how you managed to make it so hard. Maybe it was a coincidental hardware failure.

  • 2002-06-11 10:31 am
    Anonymous

    Emerge is a great tool, but it’s not perfect yet and you will get un-needed deps unless you learn how to make the USE=”” variable work to your advantage.

    ie: USE=”-gnome opengl -kde -qt” etc…etc

  • 2002-06-11 11:07 am
    Anonymous

    Hmm I’m not sure what is exactly your system but seems that you didn’t have the opengl flag set when you compiled the xfree or something similar.

    My suggestion is try to clean up the USE flags and re-emerge xfree (maybe with gcc3.1, just to look for damag^H^H^H^H^H “optimization”)

    my 0,2euro

  • 2002-06-11 11:08 am
    Anonymous

    dubbio root # emerge -up kde

    These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

    Calculating dependencies …done!

    [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-3.0.4.20020606-r1 to /

    [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.0.1.20020604 to /

    [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdeaddons-3.0.1.20020604 to /

    [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdeedu-3.0.1.20020604 to /

    [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdeartwork-3.0.1.20020604 to /

    [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdeutils-3.0.1.20020604 to /

    [ebuild U ] app-arch/rpm-4.0.4-r2 to /

    [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdeadmin-3.0.1.20020604 to /

    [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdetoys-3.0.1.20020604 to /

    [ebuild U ] kde-base/kde-3.0.1.20020604 to /

  • 2002-06-11 1:20 pm
    Anonymous

    Is the 1.3 test thing stable and easy enuf to start out with or should i start with 1.2?

    normally id just grab one and try but as im back on dialup its gonna take me a LONG time just to get started with one iso …

  • 2002-06-11 11:17 pm
    Anonymous

    You should go with what you know, if your a seasoned linux user than the 1.3a GCC3 based will be fine, if your newer to linux say less than a year I would go for 1.2 as it is based on the stable and well tested GCC2.

  • 2002-06-12 12:15 am
    Anonymous

    Woohoo! I finally got it kind of running. And all it took was lots of time, a determination bothering fanatacism, some luck, and even more time because I made a mistake the first time. It probably taught me more about configuring Linux, than years of trying stupid Redhat/Suse/Mandrake distros did, though.

    It sure does boot a lot faster than other Linux distributions. Also, I love the emerge command. It’s so much more elegant than RPM.

    For some reason my network card doesn’t work. There is no /dev/eth0. Could it be that I need to recompile my kernel? Though I’d swear I added support for my ne2000 compatible network card. When it comes to compiling kernels I definetely need practice. It took me 3 or 4 tries to even get it to compile without errors.

  • 2002-06-12 2:57 am
    Anonymous

    I just got done merging KDE, and the instructions say that I can run xf86config to set X up. But I can’t find it! Any clues?

  • 2002-06-12 3:29 pm
    Anonymous

    yeah.. ‘X -configure’ should do it for you..

  • 2002-06-13 12:39 am
    Anonymous

    i don’t know if i get banned for profanity on this site.. but i FUCKING HATE THAT MOTHERFUCKING USELESS P.O.S. WANNABEE BOOT-NEVER-LOADER…

    never has anything with such simple instructions never worked at all for me.. *RAAAAGE*

    now where’s that rifle.. i hear the morning birds have started singing..

  • 2002-06-13 10:00 am
    Anonymous

    Thanks! I’ll give it a try.