File Manager (for Gentoo)

[Emon]

Just got done installing Gentoo .. what an experience ..

I am just wondering ..is there any good file manager ..such as Norton Commander for Linux ? And if there is ..how'd I install in on gentoo ?

[noir]

Try Midnight Commander

emerge mc

[Emon]

thanks Noir .. So can you tell me how long it takes to emeger kde .. I started yesterday .. and after 12 hours ..it still going .. is that right ? or am I doing something wrong ??

I'm running it on a 700 mhz PIII with 384 megs of Ram.

[noir]

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).

[Emon]

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 December 21, 2003 by Emon

[noir]

You could do that but it wouldn't speed up anything since compiling will use all your CPU power and emerging more than one package at the same time means they have to share the CPU time.

Yeah R means it's already been emerged.

[neowin_hipster]

emerge -p kde

is definently faster to type

midnight commander was modelled after norton commander.

if and when you emerge kde i suggest not emerging half that crap.

USE="qt kde cups...." = emerge qt kde-base konqueror [other critical stuff]

[Emon]

at last !! got KDE working .. posting from my gentoo linux box :)

[volrathxp]

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

Means that the package is currently installed on the system and that if you run the emerge it will be remerged. :D

[Xe|oN]

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 :)

[Emon]

Speaking of file managers, emerge gentoo. It is prettymuch a graphical version of mc.

emerge gentoo ?? there's a file manager call gentoo ?

[Xe|oN]

emerge gentoo ?? there's a file manager call gentoo ?

yup :p what a coincidence hey

[Emon]

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"

[abaxion]

hell, so difficult, use Windows :wacko:

[metal_dragen Veteran]

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.

[Emon]

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