Portage emerge reference

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installing a specific version of a package

done using an "atom" (see manpage)

example:
# emerge package_name =package_name-version.number


manually installing a package without internet access

1. On a box with Internet access, fetch the distfile. First, use emerge fetch the install source for you...

emerge --fetchonly <package>

Next, use wget to download the file.

2. Upload the file to the /usr/portage/distfiles/ directory on the machine you intend to install the package on

      • note This procedure does not take package dependencies into account! ***