RE: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

Hi,
Thnks for the tip I shall try this and let y'll know the results 

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I used to run an offline gentoo setup. You can use "emerge -upvf
<package-name(s)>" to get a list of files you need to obtain. Pipe the
output of that to some file, do some grep/sed to remove duplicates and
remove the multiple urls.

Write a script to fetch all the files in your file list. It can be as
simple as "for file in `cat filelist` do wget $URL/$file; done;" When
you get to an internet connection, run the script to fetch all the
files.

Copy the files you just downloaded to /usr/portage/dist and emerge the
package normally.

Here is a link to a project I used before:
http://www.tlug.org.za/wiki/index.php/Ogentools. I don't know if it's
still active?

The /usr/portage/distfiles directory can very quickly grow, clean it
up every now and then. Check the /var folder. When aborting ebuilds
with ctrl-c some files are left behind in /var/tmp/portage/.

Lastly I'd like to say, I feel for you, running gentoo offline can
sometimes be a painful process.

Regards
Dirk

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