finding a software and it's source code in packages

gentoool1 · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2011 Posts: 2

Hi All

I'm a newbie and my doubt is how to find out a software and it's source code.....if they are available on gentoo's packages?

Thanks in advance.

Kollin · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:36 pm Post subject:

Source files are located in /usr/portage/distfiles, usually compressed

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gentoool1 · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2011 Posts: 2

Hi Kollin

Thanks. But for that mustn't one have the distro installed? I'm trying to find it on gentoo package repository or something similar if there's any when the distro is not installed. I want to check out the package and source code repository to find out if the software cum sourcecode i'm looking for was ever included/distributed through Gentoo from the year 2008?

Thanks.

Kollin · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:08 pm Post subject:

You can download packages from one of the Gentoo mirrors: :wink:

http://gentoo.lagis.at/distfiles/
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