Re: offline downloading...

"Rajesh Shah" <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:29:25 +0100 (BST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.newbies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

If you perform emerge p <PACKAGE> you can find out which packages you nee=
d
to install. If you want to download without installing run emerge f
<PACKAGE>

Regards,

- Raj

>
>
> Hi,
>   My home box in not on fat pipe, but my friends's is.
>   My home machine has a little linux and a ethernet card and a crossove=
r
> cable and i've access to a laptop.
>   so in effect i can download anything at my friends house and get it t=
o
> my home.
>
>
>   My Q is : how to get list of source tgz to download for basic
>   use-profile and kde-profile. my friend is not running gentoo.
>
> --Vardhan
>
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