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spilikin
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 Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:11 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] emerge aborted |
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Hi,
I'm a newbee trying to emerge xorg-x11 and keep getting "!!! Couldn't download fontconfig-2.2.3.tar.gz. Aborting." However, I did notice that this file is on the packageCD that I downloaded and burned. I read the man page for emerge and think I figured out how to emerge this file from the CD, but I would like for someone to verify if I have the right syntax as I don't want to break things. Please help! This is what I'm thinking...
export PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/all <--- all is the directory where the file fontocnfig-2.2.3.tbz2 is located
emerge fontconfig-2.2.3
After this, I should have fontconfig, and can emerge xorg-x11, correct?
Or is this assumption bad based on the fact that the packageCD file is of type tbz2?
Also, would emerge now look on the CD for the rest of the files to download? Or only to the CD when it can't find the file online (like fontconfig)?
Please help!
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kagato
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| No, export gets erased, so it wouldn't =3 You can try though, it won't hurt anything |
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forgotten1
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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You want: | Code: | export PKGDIR="/mnt/cdrom"
emerge --usepkg fontconfig |
And alternatively, you could try commenting out your GENTOO_MIRRORS entry in your make.conf temporarily. Then try to emerge xorg-x11. I had a problem similar to yours yesterday, and that worked for me. If this doesn't work, then I'd use the first approach. |
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polle
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| or just copy fontconfig-2.2.3.tar.gz to /usr/portage/distfiles |
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spilikin
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:17 pm Post subject: comment out GENTOO_MIRRORS |
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| I commented out GENTOO_MIRRORS and the emerge worked fine. That brings up another question: why would one need GENTOO_MIRRORS uncommented? I am in the USA and many of my so-called "fast mirrors" point to EU sites. |
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Maedhros
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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If you comment out GENTOO_MIRRORS, you just get the default mirrors. The idea of having your own is to get better performance, but sometimes mirrorselect picks useless mirrors, thus giving you worse performance. 
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nixnut
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:43 pm Post subject: Re: emerge aborted |
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| spilikin wrote: | Hi,
export PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/all <--- all is the directory where the file fontocnfig-2.2.3.tbz2 is located
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shouldn't that be /mnt/cdrom/All <--- with a CAPITAL "A"?
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spilikin
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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I think for now I'll keep GENTOO_MIRRORS commented. The handbook says (amd64 section 6.a) "you can skip the mirrorselect if the command doesn't work."
I now have KDE going as well and still climbing that learning curve mountain, but I can almost see the top! Thanks for all the help! |
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nixnut
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| spilikin wrote: | | I now have KDE going as well and still climbing that learning curve mountain, but I can almost see the top! Thanks for all the help! |
You'll enjoy the view. Looking out at over landscape with a lot of other (even higher) mountains 
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