What is shadow-4.0.5.tar.bz2?[solved]

teddy · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 3

Hi,

Ive been trying to install Gentoo from stage 2 for a few days, and I cannot seem to download this particular file.

after i do system emerge, it goes for about 30 minutes and stops here.

!!!couldn't download shadow-4.0.5.tar.bz2 Aborting.

I was unable to find any information on this on this site or the web.
My question is, is there a way to manually download this beforehand if it is needed, or perhaps a way to change the way I am installing it(from the web) to not try to use this file?

Any help is appreciated.

kmj0377 · Guru Joined: 26 Sep 2003 Posts: 397

Grab ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/software/shadow/old/shadow-4.0.5.tar.bz2 and put it in /usr/portage/distfiles

adaptr · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:48 pm Post subject:

teddy · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 3

adaptr · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:17 pm Post subject:

The LiveCD has wget; just put the location above after the wget command and you should be good.
Or use links/lynx - whatever works for you.
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teddy · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 3

thanks! wget worked fine.

kimchi_sg · Advocate Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 2969

Please insert [SOLVED] into the title of your first post in this topic.

transient · l33t Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 759

This should really have been fixed in the bug report about it, rather than just giving a version bump and leaving the ARCH version to try and use a non-existant download dir....