emerge-installing individual packages & dependencies

[v00d00doc]

i have a very low speed internet connection
emerge does not work properly (keeps giving connection timed out)
i wish to install KDE
download all the dependencies seperately and install them
all the dependencies seperately
i downloaded
kdebase-3.5.2.tar.bz2
put this .tar.bz2 file in /usr/portage/distfiles/
and ran the command
#emerge kdebase-3.5.2.tar.bz2
it gives
Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kdebase-3.5.2.tar.bz2".


how do i install these dependencies using emerge by downloading them sperately

[svancouw]

If you download a package as a .bz2 file without using the emerge command, you cannot install the package using emerge. You need to use the tar command and possibly the make, make install commands.

I hit this problem as well when I was first getting into Gentoo. With gentoo you've got portage, bz2 and another file extension that I don't remember that you DO use emerge to install.

In this case you need the tar and follow up commands.

[gruven]

Ummmm.....

You can install it with portage without having portage download the file. The OP has done it the correct way, but his command should have been:

emerge kdebase

You don't need anything other than that.

It will however pull in dependencies and download them, and it will download the bz2 file if the one in /usr/portage/distfiles isn't the correct one that the ebuild calls for.

You should really read through this:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...x86.xml?part=3