Help the Noob

[RLVampire]

I have been searching for the past five days for a decent guide on how to install things that are not in portage or ent ..... Been searching for guides with rpm,sh, and the tar.gz or tar.bz2 to help me install things but none of them seem ot help .... anyone have links to topics on the forum with specific " gentoo sabayon " ways to install tarballs and other gnu packages ?

Also I have installed all the video things I could find and none of the " FLV " file will play on here ..... I cant watch youtube,cnet, or any other place with similar videos ...

[xlnagla]

A couple of points.

First off, firefox should automatically install flash player for you, but if it doesn't, there's a handy install right off of adobe/macromedia's website, and the install process is thankfully distro-independent, so see if that works for you.

As a second point, what packages do you want exactly? It's really rare for something important not to be in portage or in a repository - try syncing and trying again. If you really want something that's not in the portage tree and it's not java-based, then download a source tarball (or any other compression type), unpack it to some directory (tar -xvf works for tarballs), then run
./configure
make
make install

and you'll have the package installed.

Hope that helps,
~xlnagla

[RLVampire]

I have done the tar xvf " insert " thing and tried to do the steps " made " to install frostwire for example but it doesnt seem to work. Also, I want to play games and have looked at wine,cedega, and crossover guides to get wc3 installed on the computer but to no avail ...... I have done search and looked at the fourm and gentoo website and really looked at a few guides, .... I guess I need a picture guide or something because I am total noob to installing things on Gentoo Sabayon .... " however I have over 24 hours worth of experience with the terminal because of trying to manually, using text installation path install the orginal Gentoo LiveDvd " so im totally clueless ....

[xlnagla]

What do you mean by "doesn't work"? Also, to get wine up be sure to run winecfg first.

~xlnagla

[RLVampire]

I have tried all manners of " ./configure " none of which have worked.I cannot seem to get the knack of compiling things.... I got win running and updated, yet cant get it to do anythign with my wc3 disk. " did winecfg "

[wolfden]

ummmm frostwire is in portage

http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php? ... _FrostWire

so is flash - emerge netscape-flash

[ditchmagnet]

i am trying to install frostwire too, and it says it is installed in portato, also java shows up as installed. when i try to run it i get:

~ $ frostwire
Starting FrostWire...
Java exec found in PATH. Verifying...
OOPS, you don't seem to have a valid JRE. FrostWire works best with Sun JRE available at http://www.java.com [java = changelog]
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in /usr/lib/ hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com
ls: cannot access /usr/java/j*: No such file or directory
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in /usr/java/ hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java.com
ls: cannot access /opt/j*: No such file or directory
OOPS, unable to locate java exec in /opt/ hierarchy
You need to upgrade to JRE 1.5.x or newer from http://www.java

i followed the guide at:
http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php? ... _FrostWire

i found answer but i guess it only works in ubuntu, and i tried remerging, but im still getting the same error.

[chickpea]

have you tried a

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java-check-environment

to make sure your java environment is kosher?

[ditchmagnet]

when i ran the check it came up with this. i am looking for information on it. i didnt find (or understand) and answer from the link it gave.

~ $ java-check-environment
* === Java Environment Checker ===
* The purpose of this script is to check the sanity of your Java Environment.
* We have significantly changed and improved the way Java is handled in many
* respects.
* Please refer to our upgrade guide for details:
* http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/java-upgrade.xml

* Checking fastjar ...
gcc-config error: /usr/bin/fastjar wrapper: Unable to determine executable.
CTARGET=i586-pc-linux-gnu
exec=fastjar

gcc-config error: /usr/bin/fastjar wrapper: Unable to determine executable.
CTARGET=i586-pc-linux-gnu
exec=fastjar

grep: test.txt: No such file or directory
* Your /usr/bin/fastjar was not able to create a jar file.
* See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135688
* for details. If you have had eselect-compiler installed
* just delete /usr/bin/fastjar. Otherwise report this to
* http://bugs.gentoo.org. [ !! ]

[Edit]

i follwed the gentoo guide and upgraded java, but still getting the same error

[edit]

i copied fastjar and ran the check again, this time it had me install some other java config file, tried to emerge but would not work, followed the link to download from java and follwed the instuctions in terminal, installed the java config OK, checking again...

# java-check-environment
* === Java Environment Checker ===
* The purpose of this script is to check the sanity of your Java Environment.
* We have significantly changed and improved the way Java is handled in many
* respects.
* Please refer to our upgrade guide for details:
* http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/java-upgrade.xml

* Checking fastjar ... [ ok ]

* Checking vm_environment_files ... [ ok ]

* Checking user_settings ...
* Running as root. Don't need to check user settings. [ ok ]

* Checking generation_1_system_vm ... [ ok ]

* Checking virtual_provides ... [ ok ]

* Checking overlays_eclasses ... [ ok ]

* Checking package_env ... [ ok ]

* Java environment is sane. Congratulations!

now to run frost wire (i hope)

[edit]

now when i run frostwire from terminal, i get the same original error

[RLVampire]

That is so odd, anything with java like a video cannot be seen in the firefox browser, however if I download it, will run perfectly .....