Published on October 29th, 2006 in Gentoo
After a few weeks of being unable to automatically update my system (because I couldn’t update glibc-2.4-r3), I finally found the time to dig into this error a bit deeper and to finally solve it. This is the output I got:
checking whether autoconf works… yes
configure: error:
*** These critical programs are missing or too old: gcc
*** [...]
Published on July 19th, 2006 in Gentoo, LinuxMany Linux users might have been surprised the first time they found out they needed to burn CDs and DVDs as root. Well, here’s an easy solution how to safely change the permission for cdrecord. Cdrecord is a command-line application which most front-ends use to burn the actual discs. So, to enable all users to [...]
Published on July 11th, 2006 in GentooAfter my last Gentoo box update, VLC was updated, too. I remembered that VLC doesn’t come with a GUI by default, so I had to take the exact same steps as the first time, because it wouldn’t work this time out of the box either. This is kind of annoying. Anyway, here are the steps [...]
Published on June 8th, 2006 in GentooAfter doing an “emerge –sync && emerge -up world” on my Gentoo box, the following error appeared and wouldn’t let me update my system: “sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r2)”
So I searched the internet and tried a few things and found this solution, that seemed to help a lot of people: “emerge –buildpkgonly –nodeps shadow && emerge [...]
Published on May 29th, 2006 in Gentoo, LinuxThis month’s App Tip (well it’s the first one ever actually, I wonder wether I should create this as a monthly special, hmm…): GnomeBaker - It’s an outstanding Linux CD / DVD Burning Application. Why is it outstanding you ask? Well, for lots of reasons, but the most important one is its usability. If you’ve [...]
Published on May 22nd, 2006 in GentooOk, so everyone knows this one from Windows or other Linux distros. You can simply shut down your PC using the Power Button. Well, this feature doesn’t come out of the box with Gentoo, that’s because Gentoo doesn’t tell you how to build your Operating System, it leaves all of the decissions to you. But [...]
Published on May 22nd, 2006 in GentooJust in case you wanted to add a daemon to the boot-process of your gentoo box, but couldn’t find the rc-script. Well, take a look at “/etc/init.d” directory. If you install an application that contains a daemon, then the build-script will be copied over there and the “rc-update add” resp. “rc-update del” commands look for [...]
Published on May 8th, 2006 in GentooHey everyone,
I just found a nice Howto on how to realize a Gentoo VPS setup. Sounds really interesting and as always, it’s very well documented. As soon as I’ll have some time to spare, I might give it a try.
Check it out here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/vserver-howto.xml
Published on May 4th, 2006 in GentooDenu is an advanced menu manager. It’s purpose is to keep menus consistent across different window managers. This is the official description from its project homepage:
Denu is aimed at easing menu organization over a set of varying window managers. Denu was specifically created for Gentoo Linux but as of 2.3.1 denu may be run according [...]
Published on May 4th, 2006 in GentooRecently, I wanted to do an ‘emerge -u world’, but, as from time to time, it didn’t quite work out. The following error appeared throughout the compilation process:
ACCESS DENIED unlink: /usr/share/xml2po/docbook.pyc
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/xml2po/docbook.pyc
Error message at the end:
————————— ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY —————————
LOG FILE = “/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-app-arch_-_file-roller-2.12.3-14463.log”
So I surfed [...]
