Cant get the desktop to load. (problems with xfree)

acidburn

I got Gentoo installed (WOOT YEA) but i can't get xfree to load. it gets to package 7 of 8 then aborts. It tries to download cabextract-0.6.tar.gz from the internet but i do not have an internet connection on the cpu that gentoo is on. i assume this is important for xfree to load correctly but do i need xfree? can i get by and get kde loaded up without it?
any help is appreciated.
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deadaim · Guru Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 467 Location: Florida

As far as I know, you need XFree.

acidburn · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 7:37 pm Post subject:

how can i get it to emerge without going online?
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tihkal · Apprentice Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 225

Can you get cabextract-0.6.tar.gz from the internet onto another machine? If so stick it on CD/Floppy/Zip and copy it ointo the gentoo machine. Stick it in /usr/portage/distfiles and it should find it when emerging XFree.

acidburn · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 7:49 pm Post subject:

i tried to do that but can't get the cd or floppy to recognize. how do i copy it over from the cd/floppy?

tihkal · Apprentice Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 225

Yep, that copy command is fine. You'll need to be root, but as you are emerging stuff you should be anyway.
I assume you are ok with mounting the CD drive first.
mount /dev/XXXX /mnt/cdrom
Where XXXX is the cdrom device. Probably cdrom if the symlink is set up ok.

acidburn · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 8:15 pm Post subject:

so...

tihkal · Apprentice Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Posts: 225

Yep.
Don't forget to

acidburn · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:00 pm Post subject:

i wil try tonight ... so any file it tries to go online for i should be able to do this way?? should i try to get an updated portage better than 20040223??
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PowerFactor · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:39 pm Post subject:

You can download a new snapshot from one one of the mirrors and untar it into your /usr/portage. But as it will not include any distfiles of packages it will only make your situation worse since it will be looking for newer files than what you have. I'm guessing you did a GRP install.

acidburn · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:03 pm Post subject:

nah ~ stage3 off a liveCD. so i guess i will just have to do package by package and download what i need when i need it ... omg this is going to take forever.
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PowerFactor · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:53 pm Post subject:

There are various threads here on how to make runing gentoo with a slow or no net connection just a little less painful. On sugestion fo starters. You can use "emerge -pf package" to get a list of all the files to download, including dependencies, instead of just going file by file.

acidburn · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject:

I am going crazy :lol:

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