redirecting emerge to my hard drive instead of website/ftp

nalf38 · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 27

OK, I DO have an internet connection, but it's dial-up, and for really large packages like openoffice it's not convenient for me to install via the internet. I'm new to Gentoo, and on other distros I've used I usually just go to a friends house to download large packages, burn it to CD, and then bring it home.

So, is it possible for me to make portage look for a package like open-office-bin on my hard drive or cdrom instead of attempting to download it? How would I do that?

Thanks for any help.
Nick Larson

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

Yes, you can...there is an option for emerge called --usepkg and you can point it to where you would like for it get packages from.. You will need to do man emerge to get the full details.

Also, I believe if packages are already in /usr/portage/distfiles (the directory where downloaded packages are placed) portage wont go to the internet. So you have a couple options, either leave it on the cd and point portage to the cd or put in the /usr/portage/distfiles directory.

hope it helps

idl · Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 10:07 pm Post subject:

nalf38 · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 27

You guys rock. Copying the file to /usr/portage/distfiles did the trick.