gentoo stk # emerge -av oracle-instantclient-sqlplus These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N F ] dev-db/oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.2 33,694 kB [ebuild N F ] dev-db/oracle-instantclient-sqlplus-10.2.0.2 722 kB Total size of downloads: 34,417 kB Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] Yes >>> Emerging (1 of 2) dev-db/oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.2 to / !!! dev-db/oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.2 has fetch restriction turned on. !!! This probably means that this ebuild's files must be downloaded !!! manually. See the comments in the ebuild for more information. * Please go to: * http://otn.oracle.com/software/tech/oci/instantclient/htdocs/linuxsoft.html * and download the Basic client package with SDK, which are: * instantclient-basic-linux32-10.2.0.2-20060331.zip * instantclient-sdk-linux32-10.2.0.2-20060331.zip * Then after downloading put them in: * /usr/portage/distfiles