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Baker
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 Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 4:10 pm Post subject: Whats wrong with the GRP install? |
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I'm installing gentoo on a dell laptop I have using the liveCD's. As of right now it has no net connection, until I get one I'll just have to go with whats on the CD's.
The system is installed fine now its time to use the second CD. Almost everytime I go to emerge something it wants to check the net and tires to download the packages. So I changed the PKGDIR by using | Code: | | export PKGDIR="/mnt/cdroms/packages/All" |
Now I do an emerge xmms, it spins up the drive gets a few of the packages from the cd then wants to download the rest. It does this for everything I try to emerge.
Then I tried copying the contents of the CD to my hard drive and change the PKGDIR to | Code: | | export PKGDIR="${PORTDIR}/packages/All" |
Then when I would try to emerge it would sitll spin up the cd and give me the same problems as last time.
Ive been reading the forum and have seen alot of problems with the GRP install, particularly with emerging the files from the second cd.
Do you have to emerge each package individually? Or is it just useless installing without the net?
Its very likely that I am doing something wrong, not sure what it is. any help would be appreciated. |
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floffe
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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Are you sure you did and not just emerge package? Also, if you have synced, it will try to download newer stuff from the net. Try which will only use binary packages.
And I don't think you should set too many USE flags, because that might recquire additional packages that are not on the CD. Hope this helps! |
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Baker
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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yes I am using the -k perameter to seach in the specified directory.
As an example, if I try "emerge -k xmms" it tries to download the necessary files.
If I try "emerge -K xmms" i get | Code: | !!! There are no packages available to satisfy: "xmms"
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I have not adjusted the USE flags, so that it could screw up the instilation of packages.
Shouldn't emerge first look on /mnt/cdrom/packages/All first before it tries to download? Since I set the PKGDIR |
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floffe
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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Yes it should. Are you sure xmms is on the CD2? What if you do | Code: | | ls -l xmms* /usr/portage/packages/All |
Are you sure that the CD is mounted at /mnt/cdroms and not at /mnt/cdrom (no s)? Use bash tab-completion to get deeper into the hierarchy like | Code: | ls -l /u(tab)
ls -l /usr/p(tab)
ls -l /usr/portage/pa(tab)
ls -l /usr/portage/packages/(tab) |
That will show you what is in /usr/portage/packages. If there is no All-directory there, then that is the problem. Also remember that linux is Shift sensitive, so All != all. |
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Baker
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| floffe wrote: | | Are you sure xmms is on the CD2? |
Its on CD2 -> /packages/All/xmms-1.2.7-r20.tbz2
And the hard disk -> /usr/portage/packages/xmms-1.2.7-r20.tbz2
| floffe wrote: | | Are you sure that the CD is mounted at /mnt/cdroms and not at /mnt/cdrom (no s)? Use bash tab-completion to get deeper into the hierarchy like |
Yes I'm positive its mounted under /mnt/cdrom/. I copied the CD's entire contents to /usr/portage/packages/
I placed all the packages from CD2 in /usr/portage/packages/
Not in the "All" directory.
Finally I looked in /etc/make.conf and made sure | Code: | | PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages/" |
So if I try a "emerge -k xmms" it should work.
No, its still trying to download the files.
Just to see what would happen, I tried "emerge -k kde"
Same thing..
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong here...  |
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floffe
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| Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 1:00 am Post subject: |
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| You could try copying over the portage overlay from the CD again. Then try again.Otherwise, I have no idea what you can do. |
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Baker
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| Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 4:14 am Post subject: |
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Just copied the files over again, still getting the same responses.
Puzzles me why its not working. Guess I'll just have to see if I can figure it out, but thanks for the help! |
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Neje
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| Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Baker wrote: | I copied the CD's entire contents to /usr/portage/packages/
I placed all the packages from CD2 in /usr/portage/packages/
Not in the "All" directory. |
I think you should place them in All. I believe that portage looks in PKGDIR/All. You could change the PKGDIR variable to /mnt/cdrom/packages (not /mnt/cdrom/packages/All as you did before), too.
I might be wrong though, it's been a while since I used binary packages.
Good luck anyway,
Neje
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