On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 23:35, Brent L Johnson wrote: > The mtools (like mcopy, etc) do not come with the default install. They > come with the mtools package in app-admin/tools and are included with > CD2 of the LiveCD set. How can I install these? I copied all the CD2 > packages to /usr/portage/packages and I tried running "emerge -k > app-admin/mtools" but its trying to go download the package from the > internet. > > How can I force it to install from the local disk?
Check to be sure you copied the package correctly. It should be directly in /usr/portage/packages/All/ as $package-$version.tbz2. An emerge -kp $package should show binary instead of ebuild on the left side of the term.
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