Re: Building gnome on an off-line machine.

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 20:54 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> (1) edit gar.conf.mk
> define a location for GARCHIVE
> 
> (2) cd to top of source tree
> 
> (3) run 'make garchive'
> which will download all of the garballs, except those in bootstrap
> 
> 
> (4) cd to bootstrap
> 
> (5) run 'make garchive'
> which will download all of the garballs in bootstrap

An additional handy note:

'cd desktop/; make deep-garchive' will fetch all desktop apps *plus* its
dependencies recursively. A good start to populate the GARCHIVEDIR.


> Altman, Joel G. (JSC-CC)[LM] wrote:
> > I would like to run GARNOME on a stand-alone Linux machine that has no 
> > Internet connection.  I have a machine connected to the Internet, but 
> > it is running windows.  How can I download the files to a flash disk 
> > on the windows machine and move it to the GARCIVEDIR on the Linux machine?

You can use this methods *only*, if your Windows machine happens to have
a sane GNU tool chain, of course...

...guenther


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