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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 10:04 AM

1. How long would it take to emerge a game like UT 2004.
2. When trying to install UT 2004, can emerge be able to resume
incompleted downloads if I stop it while it's downloading?
3. How long would it take to emerge KDE?
4. If I don't want to compile certain applications from source, where can
I get binaries so I can install faster?

Thanks a lot for your time.

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 10:04 AM

Hey!

1: depends on your pc and inet connection
2: Yes. Wget is used to download the packages. Wget resumes downloads afaik
3: same as 1) I think it took me about 3 hours. easiest thing would be:
start emerge and get some coffee

4: you'r looking for the "packagecd". you can get it from every gentoo
downloadmirror. mirror/releases/arch/current/packagecd

Andreas,
Vienna

Jack Wang wrote:
> 1. How long would it take to emerge a game like UT 2004.
> 2. When trying to install UT 2004, can emerge be able to resume
> incompleted downloads if I stop it while it's downloading?
> 3. How long would it take to emerge KDE?
> 4. If I don't want to compile certain applications from source, where can
> I get binaries so I can install faster?
>
> Thanks a lot for your time.

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 10:06 AM

Jack Wang wrote:
> 1. How long would it take to emerge a game like UT 2004.
> 2. When trying to install UT 2004, can emerge be able to resume
> incompleted downloads if I stop it while it's downloading?
> 3. How long would it take to emerge KDE?
> 4. If I don't want to compile certain applications from source, where can
> I get binaries so I can install faster?

1. It takes about 30 minutes on my Pentium 4 3.0Ghz. Emerge'ing UT2004
doesn't emerge the whole game... it just emerge's the update pack... it
still assumes you have the original game media available when you
install (either via CD or DVD). You may want to look at the demo UT2004
if you don't have access to the installation media.
2. Both emerge and wget can resume.
3. Don't know... I use Gnome
4. You can either ask for those binaries to be installed (eg.
openoffice-bin package instead of openoffice), or you can get someone
else to make them as a binary and then move them onto your system and:

$ emerge -k <package-name>

HTH,

....Ric
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