File Manager (for Gentoo)


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KDE is a bitch to compile so yes it sounds right. What you can do is log in on another terminal (ALT+F2 or another F key, ALT+F1 to change back) and check how many packages you have left with 'emerge --pretend kde' (if that's the package you choosen to emerge).

sweet !! thanks ..thats a cool feature .. so yea .. 4 packages left to merge ..

EDIT: one more question .. so in a different terminal .. can I emerge a different app ?

another question (sorry ..if I am being a nag :) ) [ebuild R ] what does that mean ? the package is installed ?

Edited by Emon

I installed Gentoo a couple of weeks ago and being a longterm Debian user I find it hard to say but I really love this Gentoo! Speaking of file managers, emerge gentoo. It is prettymuch a graphical version of mc. Since I have nice transparent Eterms on my desktop I tend to just use mc if i need a file manager though :p

Another change I made was going from KDE to Gnome. I've always used KDE in Debian but decided to try something different with Gentoo. I must say I feel Gnome gives me a more professional and stylish look and is certainly bloated of applications by default so i'm loving that change too :)

so yeah ..I did it .. I hosed my gentoo box .. deleted some files from sbin .. ( dont ask me why .. :) )

I started from scratch now .. but for some reason I cant chroot .. I mounted /dev/hda3 to /mnt/gentoo

and /dev/hda1 to /mnt/gentoo/boot and tried chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash ..but I get an error saying "No such file or directory"

That's a very constructive post abaxion. Perhaps next time you could try to post something useful if you have any idea what to do. Otherwise, I'd suggest you go away. ;)

Anway, Emon, I'd suggest making sure that /mnt/gentoo actually exists. I know that you have to create the /mnt/gentoo/boot directory before mounting, but I can't recall if it creates the /mnt/gentoo mountpoint automatically or not.

Also, anyone on Gentoo ever used rox-filer as a file manager? I've seen some screenshots and read a lot of good things about it, but there isn't an ebuild for it currently and I'm always leary of installing stuff that won't be in the tree to upgrade/uninstall later on.

hell, so difficult, use Windows :wacko:

ha ha ...its not difficult at all .. I was just doing something dumb .. I figured out what I was doing wrong though ..

I didn't untar one of the stages and jumped right to where I have to mount the drives. Thats why it wasn't working.

wish Windows had something like emerge -u world :D

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