how to get gnome up and running? | Gentoo Linux Community | Page 1

steep tulip Dec 21, 2023, 3:27 PM

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When I try to install gnome-base

steep tulip Dec 21, 2023, 3:32 PM

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steep tulip

oh wait i figured this out

versed sphinx Dec 21, 2023, 5:11 PM

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USE="minimal" emerge --ask --verbose --oneshot libsndfile

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then emerge gnome again

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if you are curious what happened, you are caught in a circular dependency but emerge oneshot libsndfile with USE="minimal" will solve your issue since in your next emerge it will no longer need and include the minimal use flag in libsndfile

lavish bloom Dec 21, 2023, 6:44 PM

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steep tulip oh wait i figured this out

nice one, make sure you let me know how you get on as I'm really curious to see 🙂

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 1:29 AM

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versed sphinx if you are curious what happened, you are caught in a circular dependency but em...

i just used "use="-pulseaudio"" and it started working

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the install is still going though 💀

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shitty pc frfr

versed sphinx Dec 22, 2023, 1:47 AM

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steep tulip i just used "use="-pulseaudio"" and it started working

yeah that works too

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 3:21 AM

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steep tulip i just used "use="-pulseaudio"" and it started working

can you tell me the whole command you ran please

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It could be very important

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:22 AM

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lavish bloom can you tell me the whole command you ran please

just installing gnome base?

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also im in gnome rn

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got it working

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easily now

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:22 AM

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I need the full command you typed please

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:22 AM

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it was just emerge --ask gnome-base/gnome

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or something

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:23 AM

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you didn't run USE="-pulseaaudio" emerge -va gnome did you?

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:23 AM

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no

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i just changed the use variable

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:23 AM

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thank god

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you had me worried there

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:23 AM

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i dont even know what that command is

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:25 AM

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That's good, someone gave you the command without explaining how it worked then with the fact you have a slow pc I didn't want you building a system with no sound

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let me explain how it works

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:26 AM

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ive got sound anyway

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:26 AM

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We'll use USE="minimal" emerge --ask --verbose --oneshot libsndfile as the example so I don't have to type it out

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USE="<useflag>" emerge -va paclage temporarily adds a useflag during one compile then the next time you build it goes back to normal

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:27 AM

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ah okay

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:28 AM

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if you built gnome like that then you could see the world of hurt of you would be and why I was concerned for you

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:28 AM

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yes

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i get that

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also i need help again

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:28 AM

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glad we are good here though

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:28 AM

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how do i get nvidia drivers up

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i dont get what the wiki is saying

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:28 AM

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~wiki nvidia

ocean ledgeBOT Dec 22, 2023, 4:28 AM

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nvidia

Nvidia

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Nvidia

Nvidia-drivers

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Nvidia-drivers

Nvidia GPU passthrough with QEMU on Lenovo ThinkPad P53

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Nvidia_GPU_passthrough_with_QEMU_on_Lenovo_ThinkPad_P53

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:29 AM

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everything you need to know

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:29 AM

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steep tulip i dont get what the wiki is saying

this

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:29 AM

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if you get stuck though feel free to ask

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what part

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:30 AM

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all the kerfnel shit

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do i just run emerge --ask NVIDIA/nvidia-drivers

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:30 AM

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hmm

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you have highlighted an issue with the docs I need to look at

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ok whar kernel did you pick?

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gentoo-kernel-bin?

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:31 AM

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dont remember

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i just downloaded the kernel

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:32 AM

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are you booted into the system?

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:32 AM

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yers

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im in it

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rn

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wait i think it is the bin because i didnt compile

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:32 AM

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wgetpaste -I

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install it if needed

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wgetpaste that is

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:32 AM

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i cant install since firefox is installing rn though

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:33 AM

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you can do a second emerge, it's only a script anyway

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take 2 seconds

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:33 AM

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oh

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:33 AM

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normally you shouldn't do this but in this case it's fine

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:34 AM

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https://bpa.st/HF6Q

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:35 AM

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quickly though

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why are you compiling firefox?

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:35 AM

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to install it

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i just went emerge

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firefox

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:35 AM

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use firefox-bin

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:35 AM

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ohhh

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okay

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📎 message.txt

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:36 AM

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also you know you aren't optimising builds for your hardware correct? Is this what you want or was it a mistake?

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:36 AM

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lavish bloom also you know you aren't optimising builds for your hardware correct? Is this wh...

idek

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:36 AM

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let's try this again 🙂

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:37 AM

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wait i changed from -pulseaudio to minimal

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and now its installoing

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:37 AM

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would you like a few pointers to make your system a little better

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:37 AM

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yes

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:37 AM

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stop the merge for me

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:37 AM

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okay

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:38 AM

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before we start you were most of the way there, you are just missing a couple of things to make it perfect

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so don't think you did anything bad

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:38 AM

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yeah okay

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:38 AM

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now, open your make.conf

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:38 AM

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yes

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:39 AM

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and where it says common_flags add -march=native after the -pipe

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:39 AM

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yeah okayu

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:39 AM

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so it will look like "-O2 -pipe -march=native"

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that compiles packages for your cpu type only

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:40 AM

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yeah okay

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:41 AM

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I need you to add another line that config with RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native"

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:41 AM

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done

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:41 AM

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this does the same as above but for rust packages

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lets check your changes wgetpaste /etc/portage/make.conf

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:42 AM

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https://bpa.st/GUYA

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:44 AM

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ok you need to remove use="minimal" globally setting that will break things

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:44 AM

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wouldnt i not be able to build stuff

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:44 AM

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what do you mean

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:44 AM

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since it doesnt build without that or -pulseaudio

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:45 AM

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you have the right idea for the fix to your problem but you have gone a little heavy handed with the solution

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I'll show you how to fix it correctly so you don't cause yourself more issues

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are you using grub as a bootloader?

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:47 AM

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lavish bloom are you using grub as a bootloader?

yes

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:47 AM

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ok lets add these to the config

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VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia intel i915"```

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:48 AM

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i dont want tyhe intel one btw

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at all

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:49 AM

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why not?

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:49 AM

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im not gonna use it

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but i guessss i could use it

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:49 AM

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when your gpu goes boom in 2 years you will wish you set it up

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:49 AM

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i added it

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:49 AM

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(happened to me 3 months ago 😦 )

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:49 AM

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lavish bloom when your gpu goes boom in 2 years you will wish you set it up

i got like 3 other older nvidia cards 💀

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:50 AM

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remove it if you want but it's just handy to have it

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:50 AM

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also if my gpu goes boom ill just fix it

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:50 AM

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can you come fix my pcie slot for me?

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it blew up with it

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:50 AM

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💀

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jesus

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you probably could fix that though

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using hot air and some patience

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:51 AM

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it's fried so hot air isn't going to do much here

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anyway

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:51 AM

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lol

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like remove it

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:52 AM

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the changes we added will tell portage to reinstall nvidia drivers on every kernel update, then tell grub to update the boot config so you are always using the correct kernel without any input on your part

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really handy trick

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:52 AM

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oh cool

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:53 AM

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last part, I need you to follow this section to turn your cpus features

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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/CPU_FLAGS_*#Using_cpuid2cpuflags

CPU FLAGS *

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let me know how you get on

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:57 AM

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done

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 4:57 AM

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nice

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lets make sure everything applied

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wgetpaste -I again

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 4:58 AM

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https://bpa.st/DOFA

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 5:00 AM

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looks great

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trying install firefox-bin again now

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 5:03 AM

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yeah gimme a sec

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i justy installed discord

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right

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 5:03 AM

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now worries

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 5:03 AM

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and when i launched it, it asked for an update

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now i did the manual update

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like on the wiki says

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but gnome says path not found

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 5:03 AM

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where does the wiki say that?

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 5:05 AM

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wait i figured it out

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 5:05 AM

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wgetpaste -c "emerge --verbose --pretend net-im/discord"

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lets see what is going on

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 5:05 AM

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well im in anyway

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im in the app rn

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https://bpa.st/FIFQ

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 5:07 AM

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you portage tree is out of date is all

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 5:08 AM

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ah okaty

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 5:08 AM

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emerge --verbose --ask net-im/discord```

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 5:08 AM

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so what do i do about nvidia drivers

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im in discord rn

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 5:08 AM

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that fixes the issue properly

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 5:08 AM

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yeah

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 5:08 AM

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we try not to do hacky fixes here

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 5:08 AM

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okay

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now what about nvidia drivers

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 5:09 AM

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have you fixed the hack fix?

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#1187405089065947327 message

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 5:09 AM

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yes

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 5:10 AM

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cool, it's quicker to do this stuff now then later on when it breaks your system and we both have to waste 5 hours fixing something that took a minute to do it right first time. That's why we don't do hacks

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as for nvidia emerge -va nvidia-drivers

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 5:11 AM

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yeah okay

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ill do that after firefox installs

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 5:11 AM

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we did everything else earlier so a reboot and it works

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 5:11 AM

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yeh okay

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yeah*

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 5:12 AM

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once you have rebooted and everything is ok run emerge -vauDU @world to make sure all the changes we made are applied where needed

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 5:15 AM

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how do i remove the (bin) from firefox

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it says that in search and up on the bar

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also i cant minimize firefox

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 5:18 AM

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I don't use gnome but I assume they have a menu edit program

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you'll have to wait for someone else for gnome quirks, sorry

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 5:20 AM

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yeah okay

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gnome is new to me

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i use kde but gnome 40 looked nice

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and havnet tried it yet

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pretty good

lavish bloom Dec 22, 2023, 5:26 AM

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As you know I run MATE and Cinnamon

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I don't really like gnome or kde

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 5:27 AM

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yeah okay

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 6:45 AM

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@lavish bloom

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i rebooted

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black screen on login

steep tulip Dec 22, 2023, 12:17 PM

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?

#how to get gnome up and running?