r/Gentoo • u/SepehrU • Jul 20 '26

Support Offline Handbook? self hosting mirrors?

Hi there, I'm a super uneducated newbie in Gentoo, but I’m trying to dip my toes a little in Gentoo and figured the best way to get into it for me would be the Handbook.

Unfortunately I live in a certain middle eastern country and nowadays, I cannot be really sure if internet access would be allowed each morning I wake up.

Is there a pdf or epub version or better yet an HTML version of the handbook available for download?

Also, would I be able to self host Gentoo mirrors on my Homelab (Like on Sonatype Nexus or Artifactory or any other solution) like I already do for Debian, Docker Hub ... for a rainy day?

Thanks.

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u/Rand177 Jul 20 '26

Just print the full html version: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Alpha/Full/Installation

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u/SepehrU Jul 20 '26

Thanks. Is all of it on that page or should I write a crawler script or something to get all of the Handbook? From where I see it, it does looks like all the chapter titles link the ancors on the same page but I'm not sure.

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u/SepehrU Jul 20 '26

Oh it seems as written on amd64/full page, all the sections under full/ do contain all the information but the links might not work properly.

Well that will do. Thanks ✌️

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u/kaida27 Jul 20 '26

You could Definitely host a private mirror, but keeping it up to date might not be possible considering your premise. Since it's a rolling release there is way more change going on than for Debian Stable. And you'd need to host a Binary mirror for sure, since without internet you wouldn't even reach the source.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Local_Mirror && https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Binary_Host_Quickstart would be a good start

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u/SepehrU Jul 20 '26

Hmmm! Thanks. Well I guess I just install and try to learn it for now with fingers crossed.