* Johan Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-13 14:47:01 +0200]: > Hello! > > When I emerge KDE I use the following > > > > #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 -- If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport. -- George Winters -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list