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synorgy

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Registered: 2005-07-11

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installing Xorg without internet access

hey all - I did a quick lookthrough and I couldn't seem to find anything on this (but please feel free to yell at me if I didn't RTFM enough etc.)

My problem is this - I live on campus here at school and the school feels that Cisco's Clean Access is necessary for safety etc. (I'm not arguing, but it is a PITA). I just finished the core install of the latest ISO and I realized that I can't get online because I need a web browser to authenticate against the school's servers (to verify that I am running linux and not WinXP / Vista which would require more stuff...). The problem is that links / elinks / lynx don't offer advanced enough technology to log me in. I need Xorg (and dillo or firefox) to log in.

See my catch-22? I need Xorg to log in to the network (as I need the browsers) but I need the network to download Xorg. Would it be possible for someone in here to copy / paste the contents of the 'xorg' package group and all of their dependencies? (I know that's a lot of packages, but I see no other way...)

If anyone has any ideas on how to get these packages onto my system in an easier fashion, please help me out here.

Thanks again.

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tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

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Re: installing Xorg without internet access

Try elinks.  It's what I used until I got x configured properly.

Esc brings up the menu.

Are you dual booting with another distro?  You should be able to copy that.

Last edited by tigrmesh (2008-01-29 05:25:14)

synorgy

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Registered: 2005-07-11

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Re: installing Xorg without internet access

hmm...
elinks carries a few dependencies with it, but nothing like Xorg. I'll try that out.

I'm not dual booting at all. Arch is the only OS on this computer.

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freedom_is_chaos

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Registered: 2007-11-04

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Re: installing Xorg without internet access

How do you need to authenticate?

If you need to use user/pass try

export HTTP_PROXY=user:pass@proxy.com
export http_proxy=$HTTP_PROXY

then fire up w3m, or links/lynx maybe at least that will get you working with pacman.

You could also download all the pkgs onto a flashdrive/cd and copy them to /var/pacman/cache and then pacman -S xorg

Last edited by freedom_is_chaos (2008-01-30 00:00:11)