[gentoo-user] Is it possible to download packages from Windows XP?

[gentoo-user] Is it possible to download packages from Windows XP?

[Richard Watson]

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Hi - I've just installed a wireless card and think I need to install ralink-rt61 drivers (that's what lspci shows). I'm a dual boot system (XP/Gentoo) and wireless works fine in XP at the moment. I thought I would download the package with XP (FTP / HTTP?)and then copy it into /usr/portage/distfiles. Thanks, Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to download packages from Windows XP?

[Dale]

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Richard Watson wrote:
> Hi - I've just installed a wireless card and think I need to install
> ralink-rt61 drivers (that's what lspci shows). I'm a dual boot system
> (XP/Gentoo) and wireless works fine in XP at the moment. I thought I
> would download the package with XP (FTP / HTTP?)and then copy it into
> /usr/portage/distfiles. Thanks, Richard

That will work just fine.  Just copy it there and then emerge will see
it and do its thing.

Dale

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to download packages from Windows XP?

[Richard Watson]

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That will work just fine.  Just copy it there and then emerge will see it and do its thing.

What http or ftp address goes to the package area where I can download? Thanks, Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to download packages from Windows XP?

[Richard Watson]

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What http or ftp address goes to the package area where I can download? Thanks, Richard


Stupid question ... One of the mirrors of course (sorry). Richard

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[gentoo-user] Re: Is it possible to download packages from Windows XP?

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"Richard Watson" <waty@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> What http or ftp address goes to the package area where I can
> download? Thanks, Richard

See <http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml#doc_chap1_sect5> for
mirrors near you.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to download packages from Windows XP?

[Dale]

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Richard Watson wrote:
>
> That will work just fine.  Just copy it there and then emerge will see
> it and do its thing.
>
> What http or ftp address goes to the package area where I can
> download? Thanks, Richard
>  

One way to get a known mirror is to do this command:  emerge -fp
<package name>  It will give you a list of mirrors that should have the
file and the address for it too.

If you want to, you can also go to gentoo.org and click the link on the
left under Resources for Mirrors.  Some of the mirrors are fairly easy
to figure out which is closest to you.  Pick a close one if you can. 
When you click on the mirror you have picked, click distfiles.  A list
should come up of all the files that are available.  Pick the one you
need and click on it.  That should start the download.

If it tries to open it instead of downloading it as a file, try right
clicking and select save target as.

If you don't see the exact one you need, go back and pick another
mirror.  It may not have gotten the file if it was recently added.

After that, copy it to the distfiles directory and try to emerge your
package.

Hope that helps.

Dale

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to download packages from Windows XP?

[Drew]

>  One way to get a known mirror is to do this command:  emerge -fp <package
> name>  It will give you a list of mirrors that should have the file and the
> address for it too.

That assumes he has the information about the mirror/package stored
locally. I think he's asking because his wireless card doesn't work
under gentoo but does under XP, so non-local data is impossible to
snag. ;-)


-Drew
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Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to download packages from Windows XP?

[Dale]

Drew wrote:
>>  One way to get a known mirror is to do this command:  emerge -fp
>> <package
>> name>  It will give you a list of mirrors that should have the file
>> and the
>> address for it too.
>
> That assumes he has the information about the mirror/package stored
> locally. I think he's asking because his wireless card doesn't work
> under gentoo but does under XP, so non-local data is impossible to
> snag. ;-)
>
>
> -Drew

I'm not a windoze user but I would run the command in Gentoo, write down
the address, boot into windoze and poke it in < I hate this part> IE and
download it.  Then copy it over, ever how he plans to do that too.  :/

Of course, if he can't or doesn't want to do it that way, I gave him
another option, just in case.  ;-)

Dale
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