I got the Gentoo 1.4 disks via snail mail, and installed as nearly by the book
as I could. I only have dialup ppp, so installing much of the system from CD
saves both time and telkom cost. The emerge system works beautifully if I
start the ppp. But the instructions say that you should be able to install
from the CDs, or from files copied from the CDs. The example they give is:
# USE='bindist" emerge -k xfree
But I can't get this to work. I've looked at man page, portage manual, etc,
but I must be missing something. Here's actual console output:
asterix:packages> ls xfree*
xfree-4.3.0-r2.tbz2
asterix:packages> export PKGDIR=$PWD
asterix:packages> echo $PKGDIR
/usr/portage/packages
asterix:packages> USE="bindist" emerge -K xfree
Calculating dependencies
!!! There are no packages available to satisfy: "xfree"
!!! Either add a suitable binary package or compile from an ebuild.
!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.
asterix:packages> USE="bindist" emerge -K xfree-4.3.0-r2.tbz2
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r2 to /
!!! CATEGORY info missing from info chunk, aborting...
asterix:packages>
I've googled for "CATEGORY info missing from info chunk", to no avail.
Can you gentoo boffins direct me?
TIA
Bob Barry
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