Install KDE Offline

iNFERiON · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 17

Hello everyone,

Last weekend I've been busy with installing Gentoo on my laptop. I'm relatively new to Gentoo, I've been used to pre-built distro's with KDE/GNOME already compiled for me. So far all of the setup went well, but now I want to compile KDE using the "emerge --usepkg kde" command as described in the 2005.1 Handbook Chapter 11b. It starts out well, but at a certain point it is trying to connect to the internet to retrieve the file kdebase-3.4.1.tar.bz2. It tries multiple ftp servers, but fails to retrieve the package, which is obvious, since my PCMCIA WLAN card, my primary ethernet card on the system, has not yet been fully configured, I was hoping to finalize it's configuration with a GUI in front of me, since that works easier. The emerge process halts after it fails to retrieve above mentioned bz2 file and kicks me back to the terminal. Is there any way to continue installation offline ? Or to point out where the bz2 file is on my local drive ? As I could download it with my desktop system and put it on a CD-RW temporarily and copy the file onto my laptop.

lost+found · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:32 pm Post subject:

I think it cannot find your pkg dir, so it tries downloading the sources.

Try:

iNFERiON · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 17

Hi lost+found,

thank you for your answer, however I already did mount my cdrom drive and used the

lost+found · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject:

...OK, but it should be without the $ sign...
Maybe emerge wants another version than the package you have offline.

You can check this with:

iNFERiON · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 17

That outputs kde-base/*3.4.1*

Multiple files in there with 3.4.1 with version number, nothing higher. And the kde-base in front of it suggests that it is in the kde-base package on my Package CD. Is there any way to examine the package contents on the Package CD to be sure ?

But the weird thing is that I got the packages CD and the installation CD from the same directory, so they should match each other perfectly.

lost+found · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:04 pm Post subject:

iNFERiON · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 17

So what is the next thing I can try ?

lost+found · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 8:50 pm Post subject:

hmmm... maybe check the PKGDIR env variable again with:

iNFERiON · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 17

With that last command I get "There are no packages available to satisfy: "=kde-3.4.1""

I will try to link up my laptop to my wired network tommorrow and see if I can let emerge download the file it wants, since that seems like the only solution left. Alternatively I will recompile the kernel for GNOME support and install that to see if that works. I'll figure something out tomorrow and will let you know how it went.

lost+found · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:04 pm Post subject:

Good luck! But I'm sure it will going to install entire KDE from source like that, which is fine if you're not in a hurry... ;-)

I own a slow Athlon550 box, and last time I upgraded KDE, it took ca. 40 hours to compile all....

You can fetch all sources first with the -f option, and then shut down the network.

lost+found · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:08 am Post subject:

Goodmorning (we took a nap in this part of the world),

Maybe we can give your packages a last try... :-)

If you can see the contents of your packages cd with

iNFERiON · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 17

Well, I discovered somthing else now, I can indeed ls the kde-base dir, but there is not kdebase-3.4.1.tar.bz2 file inside it, which emerge is looking for. The files matching ls /mnt/cdrom/kde-base/kdebase* are:

lost+found · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:38 pm Post subject:

Hi,

No, the *.tbz2 is always used by Portage/emerge for precompiled packages, and *.tar.bz2 for source code packages a.k.a. "distfiles". And you even have the right versions... so it should work. You can still try my previous post.

Note: it is PKGDIR and NOT $PKGDIR, because you set the variable...

iNFERiON · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 17

Well, I tried another thing now and it's close to working :p
I decided that GNOME will do too and tried to install that, all went like a charm and it's all emerged now, however, it has a problem with initilizing my video driver, because when I start it, the screen stays black with only the cursor as a cross in the middle. Pressing CTRL-ALT-F1 learns that this is the last output GNOME gives when I issue a 'startx' command.

lost+found · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:14 pm Post subject:

Almost up and running...

But I got no clue on the error. Maybe better start a new post, so it will appear in the unanswered posts, or search the forum. Most of the time you're not the only one getting the same error...