Lost in Gentoo installation, need help

General Linux Question
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Yes, and all that can be accomplished without emaint!!!

emerge-webrsync and emerge –sync have been a part of Gentoo, for as long as I can remember!! emaint is just another, third party install, that one has to learn. A user must learn Gentoo first, and then decide on what other programs, that may or may not enhance their Gentoo experience!!!

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I love that.
You made a huge leap, from LMDE to Gentoo.
Try BSD some day… RC scripts are still alive.

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Let me rephrase this!!! If you are doing a hard install for Gentoo use “-march=ivybridge” which is for this machine!!! If you are using VirtualBox for a VM then use “-march=mative” or just leave it alone!!!

I really have no idea if one is using qemu!!!

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Success! :smile:

After enabling the “binary mode,” things really go much faster.I now have KDE Plasma up and running. Of course, there are some topics remaining:

  • Printing (CUPS)
  • Wireless networking
  • Sound system
  • Camera
  • Bluetooth
  • Install required applications.
  • Graphic card driver[1] (optional)

Anyway, huge thanks to everyone who contributed up to here. I still appreciate any help and proposals. :heart: :+1:

  1. My laptop has 2 graphics cards. Currently the default (Intel) is used. Maybe I can switch to the 2nd card (Radeon). ↩︎

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Congratulations. From here on it gets easier.
Get some practice with portage… eg you might have some special app that you want to compile with non-default flags. I do that with R.
Portage is a very capable package manager… a bit like Freebsd ports.

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Yes. As I mentioned earlier, one should read about Portage before starting the installation. I’ll continue learning.

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I think it depends what qemu is emulating. If it is native x86_64 I guess you could use the march value for the host? I will see if I can find what virt-manager suggests.

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Smart move for that laptop and welcome to Gentoo!!!

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What have you used for the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=?

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My laptop has 2 graphics cards. Currently the default (Intel) is used. Maybe I can switch to the 2nd card (Radeon What is in your VIDEO_CARDS=?

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Currently unset.

Currently unset, will be the final topic.

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Great! Welcome!

For wireless I use NetworkManager (nmtui is nice) and for BT is use Blueman. I have" -bluetooth" flag on my HTPC but laptops have BT enabled.

If you don’t want to compile Firefox or Thunderbird they have bin packages. Named firefox-bin and thunderbird-bin

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That is the thing with Gentoo and the make.conf!!! If you do not set this, and other settings, before you update your profile, then Gentoo will use a default setting, to who knows what!!

Look at my screenshot, that make.conf is edited right after the stage3 emerge!!!

It is possible to run Gentoo with the make.conf, as is, but it would be very erratic!!!

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I’ll fix it ASAP.

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Thanks, I don’t use either. But I installed Waterfox with the tarball.

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I suppose one would normally set that to the native architecture… unless one wanted to cross-compile.
What would one set it to in a VM?

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I cannot find it.

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I just use “amd64” or I do not set it at all, and let gentoo use the default!!!

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You most likely need “net-misc/networkmanager”

You might want to look at this also “https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NetworkManager”

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I did my install with ethernet, then switched the internet link to wireless so I could use the ethernet port for printers.
I did not use NM. From memory I configured the local printer network as static with dhcpcd, but not sure how I did the wireless link… I will check… I remember doing wpa_supplicant by hand.

I looked. I used
net-wireless/iw
net-wireless/wireless tools
net-wireless/wpa-supplicant

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