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From: drobbins@g.o
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Simple question : installing packages
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:10:58
Message-Id: 20010111141058.B29444@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Simple question : installing packages by Brian Snipes
1 On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:02:42PM -0600, Brian Snipes wrote:
2
3 > The web site doesn't specify how to install the tbz2 packages after the
4 > initial install of Gentoo. The only instructions are to copy the packages
5 > you want to /mnt/gentoo/tmp before reboot. What is the 'proper' way to do
6 > package installs? When you copy the files to the tmp dir should you copy the
7 > directories structure also or can you just copy the tbz2 files to a dir you
8 > create in tmp?
9
10 You can just move over the packages you want to install. The correct way to
11 install them is to type:
12
13 # pkgmerge package.tbz2
14
15 --
16 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
17 President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
18 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

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