Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Brian Snipes <bsnipes@×××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Simple question : installing packages
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:27:34
Message-Id: 200101112120.f0BLKRB10228@pink.snsnet.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Simple question : installing packages by drobbins@gentoo.org
1 Many thanks.... Any plans on adding the info to the web page are is the distribution still to be considered for developers only?
2
3 Brian Snipes
4
5 On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:10:58 -0700
6 drobbins@g.o wrote:
7
8 > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:02:42PM -0600, Brian Snipes wrote:
9 >
10 > > The web site doesn't specify how to install the tbz2 packages after the
11 > > initial install of Gentoo. The only instructions are to copy the packages
12 > > you want to /mnt/gentoo/tmp before reboot. What is the 'proper' way to do
13 > > package installs? When you copy the files to the tmp dir should you copy the
14 > > directories structure also or can you just copy the tbz2 files to a dir you
15 > > create in tmp?
16 >
17 > You can just move over the packages you want to install. The correct way to
18 > install them is to type:
19 >
20 > # pkgmerge package.tbz2
21 >
22 > --
23 > Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
24 > President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
25 > Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

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