Re: Newbie: install prob 1.4-rc1

On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 10:34:24 +0200
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm new to the list and currently installing my very first Gentoo
> system. I was intrigued by a collegue who was speaking of a new great
> distro. Ofcourse I had to try it! :) Before this (and currently) I'm
> running a few Debian systems, and have done so for a couple of years.
> 
> My problem:
> I have completed the installation according to "Gentoo LInux 1.4
> Installation Instructions" without difficulties, and went directly to
> install and configure the desktop. When doing 'emerge kde' it first
> complained about not finding libcups, which I fixed by doing an
> 'emerge ghostscript'. When redoing the 'emerge kde' it now hangs on
> freetype, with message about not finding 'ftdocs-2.1.2-rc1.tar.bz2'...
> I've searched this list and are for the moment stuck. I'm trying to
> find information about how this distro works, in terms of upgrading
> the kernel and modules for example.
> 
> I would greatly appriciate any ideas or sollutions, as I'm keen on
> testing this highly optimized distro! :)
> 
> //Pontus
> 
Try to emerge portage again and then rsync.Had similar trouble once and
that fixed it.

Klaus