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Hi |
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I successfully installed Gentoo on a recent ASUS laptop (the basic install, |
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as described in the handbook). |
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I cannot use the on-line features of Portage since I only have a slow modem |
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at home. |
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So, I used an universal boot CD, started from a stage 3 tarball (all this |
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downloaded from my job office location).... But also expected to have a |
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graphical environment (let's say Gnome, but I have the same kind of problem |
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with Kde). |
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Initially, I saw that issuing the "emerge gnome" command required to have |
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some ebuilds which were not present on my PC. |
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...So, I downloaded an ISO image of the relevant "package CD" from my job |
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(with a fast-speed connection). I burned the image as a CD, and installed its |
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contents as follows : |
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- I copied all files from the "All" subdirectory of the CD in my |
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/usr/portage/distfiles folder (a lot of non-zero-length '.tbz2' files) |
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- I did not deal with files in other sub-directories, since all these '.tbz2' |
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files were zero-length |
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The problem when I "emerge gnome" is that it tries to download the |
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"gnome-mime-data-2.4.1.tar.bz2" file from many WWW locations, and fails (of |
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course, I am not connected, and would like to install offline). |
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...This while, the file "gnome-mime-date-2.4.1.tbz2" is really (and with |
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non-zero length) in my /usr/portage/distfiles folder ! |
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What did I do wrong ? Think I misunderstanded Portage, but where ? |
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Thanks by advance |
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Regards |
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Henri |
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