Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-05 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Dirk Uys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I was able to complete the Gentoo installation and boot into my system successfully. I only downloaded the Live CD, But the live CD only

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-05 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Dirk Uys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I Used the Live CD ... It does contain few packages like X11,xfce4, gdm , some network utils,vim . But I need to get other packages which I

[gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
Hi I was able to complete the Gentoo installation and boot into my system successfully. I only downloaded the Live CD, But the live CD only contains a limited number of packages and... I do not have an internet connection at home since its very expensive for us. Is their any possible way

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread M. Sitorus
maybe this link will help : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-79884-highlight-networkless+scripts.html as for portage tree, you could update your portage tree using emerge-webrsync. Just download the portage tree snapshots tarball, then put it on /tmp/emerge-webrsync/ On 11/5/08, Lorenzu

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I was able to complete the Gentoo installation and boot into my system successfully. I only downloaded the Live CD, But the live CD only contains a limited number of packages and... I do not have an

RE: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
:54 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I was able to complete the Gentoo installation and boot into my system successfully. I only

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I Used the Live CD ... It does contain few packages like X11,xfce4, gdm , some network utils,vim . But I need to get other packages which I need. lIke Gcj , fluxbox , mpg321 ... Even though it has only few

RE: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
Hi, Thnks for the tip I shall try this and let y'll know the results ... I used to run an offline gentoo setup. You can use emerge -upvf package-name(s) to get a list of files you need to obtain. Pipe the output of that to some file, do