* Johan Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-13 14:47:01 +0200]:
> Hello!
>
> When I emerge KDE I use the following
>
>
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> #emerge -av -usepkg kde
>
>
>
> -a =ask before emerging anything so that I can see which dependencies I
> need.
>
> -v = verbose....
>
> --usepkg it looks for the files in the PKGDIR before wanting to
> download.
>
>
>
> I copied the files on the cd to a folder on my pc
> (/Install/CD_contents). So I had to export PKGDIR to point to this
> location before running emerge.
>
> #export PKGDIR=/Install/CD_contents
>
>
>
> Now when I run emerge -av -usepkg kde it wants to download 163mb of
> data for dependencies. I have every one of those files that it wants to
> download in the /Install/CD_contents directory and don't know what else
> to do. I have been struggling with this for a day now and don't know
> what else to do to get emerge to look in /Install/CD_contents.
>
>
>
> On the previous installation I installed kde without any problems by
> exporting PKGDIR to point to the cdrom but I wanted to continue with
> other things on the cdrom this time but it doesn't seem to work well for
> me now
>
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
>
>
>
> Tx Johan
>
Seems like you missed one character: a '-'
it has to be emerge -av --usepkg kde or emerge -akv kde
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