Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection
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 >> need. lIke Gcj , fluxbox , mpg321 ... >> >> Even though it has only few packages installed it consumes a lot of disk >> space... that another problem im having. >> > > I used to run an offline gentoo setup. You can use "emerge -upvf > " to get a list of files you need to obtain. Pipe the > output of that to some file, do some grep/sed to remove duplicates and > remove the multiple urls. > > Write a script to fetch all the files in your file list. It can be as > simple as "for file in `cat filelist` do wget $URL/$file; done;" When > you get to an internet connection, run the script to fetch all the > files. Why don't you just run wget -i filelist? In fact, you do not even need to edit the filelist to remove duplicates; you can just use wget's -nc option. So you can use wget -nc -i filelist or, if you want to do it in the background wget -nc -i filelist -b --progress=dot:mega > The /usr/portage/distfiles directory can very quickly grow, clean it > up every now and then. I suggest the tool eclean (part of gentoolkit).
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection
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 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 that i can get a Software collection downloaded >> for my Gentoo box . I have a P3 with 256 RAM when xfce is combined with >> Gnome my PC runs slow. I am not much of a xfce/Gnome /KDE fan but since I >> have no way of getting packages in to my PC I am facing difficulties. What do you mean "xfce combined with Gnome" ? > > As a side note: for a PC running on low specs I would recommend using > a window manager like WindowMaker or IceWM. Both of them are very > lightweight. Xfce is light enough. I'm using it right now, and I like it very much. It is very lightweight, occupies negligible RAM, and also occupies little disk space: equery size xfce-base/ * size of xfce-base/libxfce4mcs-4.4.2 Total files : 44 Total size : 285.76 KiB * size of xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.4.2 Total files : 68 Total size : 527.11 KiB * size of xfce-base/libxfcegui4-4.4.2 Total files : 114 Total size : 1287.49 KiB * size of xfce-base/thunar-0.9.0-r2 Total files : 530 Total size : 9990.27 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce-mcs-manager-4.4.2 Total files : 199 Total size : 601.28 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce-mcs-plugins-4.4.2-r1 Total files : 228 Total size : 1494.46 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce-utils-4.4.2-r1 Total files : 87 Total size : 483.62 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce4-4.4.2 Total files : 4 Total size : 5.57 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce4-panel-4.4.2 Total files : 290 Total size : 1638.96 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.4.2 Total files : 259 Total size : 2215.87 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.4.2-r2 Total files : 254 Total size : 4127.12 KiB * size of xfce-base/xfwm4-4.4.2 Total files : 1435 Total size : 3048.79 KiB equery size xfce-extra/ [ Searching for packages matching xfce-extra/... ] * size of xfce-extra/exo-0.3.4 Total files : 324 Total size : 3297.70 KiB * size of xfce-extra/xfce4-mixer-4.4.2 Total files : 188 Total size : 624.86 KiB And look at how little memory it consumes: $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 884 78806 0 643 -/+ buffers/cache: 28855 Swap: 972 0 972 This is from a just-booted system, with a gkrellm open, some daemons, and an aterm (used to run the command 'free'). So only 28 MB used, total (including Xfce plus everything else) (although I imagine the is some kernel memory that does not go in this figure; I'm not an OS expert). There is no need to go the path of Fluxbox; Xfce delivers all the speed and featherweight you need, while being very ease to use, vastly configurable, feature-rich, and good-looking. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds
RE: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection
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
" to get a list of files you need to obtain. Pipe the
output of that to some file, do some grep/sed to remove duplicates and
remove the multiple urls.
Write a script to fetch all the files in your file list. It can be as
simple as "for file in `cat filelist` do wget $URL/$file; done;" When
you get to an internet connection, run the script to fetch all the
files.
Copy the files you just downloaded to /usr/portage/dist and emerge the
package normally.
Here is a link to a project I used before:
http://www.tlug.org.za/wiki/index.php/Ogentools. I don't know if it's
still active?
The /usr/portage/distfiles directory can very quickly grow, clean it
up every now and then. Check the /var folder. When aborting ebuilds
with ctrl-c some files are left behind in /var/tmp/portage/.
Lastly I'd like to say, I feel for you, running gentoo offline can
sometimes be a painful process.
Regards
Dirk
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Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection
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 packages installed it consumes a lot of disk > space... that another problem im having. > > Thanks & Regards, > > Gayan Lorenzu Hewa | Sub Officer | Wholesale Banking Corporate Service > Center | Standard Chartered Bank > (: 0115-397335): 0773-652003 6: 0115-397337 *: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I used to run an offline gentoo setup. You can use "emerge -upvf " to get a list of files you need to obtain. Pipe the output of that to some file, do some grep/sed to remove duplicates and remove the multiple urls. Write a script to fetch all the files in your file list. It can be as simple as "for file in `cat filelist` do wget $URL/$file; done;" When you get to an internet connection, run the script to fetch all the files. Copy the files you just downloaded to /usr/portage/dist and emerge the package normally. Here is a link to a project I used before: http://www.tlug.org.za/wiki/index.php/Ogentools. I don't know if it's still active? The /usr/portage/distfiles directory can very quickly grow, clean it up every now and then. Check the /var folder. When aborting ebuilds with ctrl-c some files are left behind in /var/tmp/portage/. Lastly I'd like to say, I feel for you, running gentoo offline can sometimes be a painful process. Regards Dirk
RE: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection
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 packages installed it consumes a lot of disk
space... that another problem im having.
Thanks & Regards,
Gayan Lorenzu Hewa | Sub Officer | Wholesale Banking Corporate Service
Center | Standard Chartered Bank
(: 0115-397335): 0773-652003 6: 0115-397337 *:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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 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 that i can get a Software collection
downloaded
> for my Gentoo box . I have a P3 with 256 RAM when xfce is combined
with
> Gnome my PC runs slow. I am not much of a xfce/Gnome /KDE fan but
since I
> have no way of getting packages in to my PC I am facing difficulties.
>
> Also my gentoo root partition (/) is only 5GB But it has already
consumed
> almost 50% of the partition space. Is their a possible way of getting
more
> spacxe freed in the PC .
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Gayan Lorenzu Hewa | Sub Officer | Wholesale Banking Corporate Service
> Center | Standard Chartered Bank
>
> (: 0115-397335): 0773-652003 6: 0115-397337 *:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you get the minimal live CD? If possible, try to get the live cd
that at least contains a stage3 tarbal, a portage snapshot, and some
precompiled packages.
As a side note: for a PC running on low specs I would recommend using
a window manager like WindowMaker or IceWM. Both of them are very
lightweight.
Regards
Dirk
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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 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 that i can get a Software collection downloaded > for my Gentoo box . I have a P3 with 256 RAM when xfce is combined with > Gnome my PC runs slow. I am not much of a xfce/Gnome /KDE fan but since I > have no way of getting packages in to my PC I am facing difficulties. > > Also my gentoo root partition (/) is only 5GB But it has already consumed > almost 50% of the partition space. Is their a possible way of getting more > spacxe freed in the PC . > > Thanks & Regards, > > Gayan Lorenzu Hewa | Sub Officer | Wholesale Banking Corporate Service > Center | Standard Chartered Bank > > (: 0115-397335): 0773-652003 6: 0115-397337 *: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you get the minimal live CD? If possible, try to get the live cd that at least contains a stage3 tarbal, a portage snapshot, and some precompiled packages. As a side note: for a PC running on low specs I would recommend using a window manager like WindowMaker or IceWM. Both of them are very lightweight. Regards Dirk
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection
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 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 internet
> connection at home since its very expensive for us.
>
>
>
> Is their any possible way that i can get a Software collection
> downloaded for my Gentoo box . I have a P3 with 256 RAM when xfce is
> combined with Gnome my PC runs slow. I am not much of a xfce/Gnome /KDE
> fan but since I have no way of getting packages in to my PC I am facing
> difficulties.
>
>
>
>
>
> Also my gentoo root partition (/) is only 5GB But it has already
> consumed almost 50% of the partition space. Is their a possible way of
> getting more spacxe freed in the PC .
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
>
>
> Gayan Lorenzu Hewa | Sub Officer | Wholesale Banking Corporate Service
> Center | Standard Chartered Bank
>
> *: 0115-397335*: 0773-652003 6: 0115-397337 *:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>
>
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[gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection
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 that i can get a Software collection
downloaded for my Gentoo box . I have a P3 with 256 RAM when xfce is
combined with Gnome my PC runs slow. I am not much of a xfce/Gnome /KDE
fan but since I have no way of getting packages in to my PC I am facing
difficulties.
Also my gentoo root partition (/) is only 5GB But it has already
consumed almost 50% of the partition space. Is their a possible way of
getting more spacxe freed in the PC .
Thanks & Regards,
Gayan Lorenzu Hewa | Sub Officer | Wholesale Banking Corporate Service
Center | Standard Chartered Bank
*: 0115-397335*: 0773-652003 6: 0115-397337 *:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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