Mailing List Archive: emerge help

emerge help

Oct 22, 2004, 11:31 AM

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Hi all,
If I want to emerge some thing..
can I download it 1st & then install?
If so what is the command for that?
Thankx
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Re: emerge help [ In reply to ]

tero at vuosaari

Oct 22, 2004, 11:46 AM

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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Kesara Rathnayake wrote:

> Hi all,
> If I want to emerge some thing..
> can I download it 1st & then install?
> If so what is the command for that?

emerge -f <packages> only downloads the package. You can then emerge them
normally later on.

"man portage" for more info.

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Re: emerge help [ In reply to ]

harley7 at cogeco

Oct 23, 2004, 9:27 AM

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On 21:46 Fri 22 Oct , Tero Grundstr?m wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Kesara Rathnayake wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > If I want to emerge some thing..
> > can I download it 1st & then install?
> > If so what is the command for that?
>
> emerge -f <packages> only downloads the package. You can then emerge them
> normally later on.
>
> "man portage" for more info.

'man emerge' as well.

Bill

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