On Wednesday 15 October 2003 19:45, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Kevin Bucknum wrote: > >>The PC used for testing is a slow machine PII500 256MB RAM. > >>To overcome > >>the difficulty can I make use of the 2nd CD. If YES, then HOW. I > >>already have all packages on the 2nd CD copied to Gentoo 1.4 > > > >Not sure what's on the second cd - back when I installed there was just > > one. It sounds like you are trying to avoid compiling these packages, and > > in the time you spent trying to get the binaries to work, the source > > would have compiled by now. But if want to use the binaries - what does > >echo $PKGDIR > > I have browsed CD2 (second CD). There are many kde packages there in > .tbz I have copied all of them to > > /usr/portage/packages/ > > # echo $PKGDIR > empty return > > B.R. > Stephen > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
All GRP packages should live in /usr/portage/packages/All/<here> Unless you emerge synced 'emerge -k appname' should work if not try: 'emerge -K appname' Good luck Roger (roger55 on #gentoo) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
