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Archerbee

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Registered: 2007-10-17

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offline gnome install

Hey...I just reinstalled Arch core on my system and the problem is that i can't connect to the net so to download gnome with pacman!I can connect to the wireless via gnome-network-manager but i cannot via terminal...Tried

$ifconfig wlan0 up;iwconfig wlan0 essid "MyEssid";dhcpcd wlan0

but i always get a time out error!So i have now booted from an ubuntu live cd and mount arch...What can i do from here so to install gnome?Maybe download the nessecary packages so to install it with pacman?But who are them and with what order?

Hope you will help me...Thanks!

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: offline gnome install

This is the guide I followed to chroot into my Arch install and get pacman working:  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _Interface.

czar

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Registered: 2008-03-08

Posts: 115

Re: offline gnome install

Try setting up a profile with netcfg in /etc/network-profiles to connect to the internet
To install gnome without an internet connection pick up the packages from a repo and put them into your /var/cache/pacman/pkg folder.

Archerbee

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Registered: 2007-10-17

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Re: offline gnome install

Maybe i could try something with the gnome live cd?
It can be found here: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLiveCd

hacosta

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: offline gnome install

pacman -Sl gnome > download.txt

should give you a list of the packages you need, download them and, as czar pointed out, move them to yor /var/chache/pacman/pkg folder, then you can install gnome

Archerbee

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Registered: 2007-10-17

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Re: offline gnome install

hm..nice!I'll try it...And after this and installing my card's drivers i should be ok,right?

czar

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Registered: 2008-03-08

Posts: 115

Re: offline gnome install

You don't need gnome to connect to the internet. I'm not so sure that will solve your problem.
You'll want to connect to the internet on startup anyway. The generally accepted way to do this in arch (afaik) is netcfg2
Install your drivers and configure netcfg (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg).

Infact the line in your OP should work fine if you just install the drivers first. Why would you need gnome before the driver?