Gentoo Archives: gentoo-accessibility

From: "David Renström" <david.renstrom@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Package installation
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 21:23:55
Message-Id: 5.1.1.6.0.20040512232337.021d10a0@127.0.0.1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Package installation by Spider
1 Hey Spider,
2
3 Yes, they did help. Thanks.
4
5 Regards,
6 /David R.
7 At 21:54 2004-05-12 +0200, you wrote:
8 >begin quote
9 >On Wed, 12 May 2004 21:12:37 +0200
10 >David Renström <david.renstrom@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
11 >
12 > > Hi again!
13 > >
14 > > I've got another question: How do you install a package whose name
15 > > contains dashes (-), e.g. realplayer8-r7? Or links-2 for that matter.
16 > > I always get an error saying something about a key and that I should
17 > > probably add an equal sign. I guess I'm missing something fundamental
18 > > here, so please tell me how to get around this. It's very annoying!
19 > > :-) And speaking of annoying, I'm sorry for asking about alot of stuff
20 > > that strictly doesn't have anything to do with accessibility, but the
21 > > list doesn't seem to be overloaded for the moment anyway.
22 >
23 >
24 >
25 >Okay, I'll try to help here.
26 >
27 >if you want to install an -exact- version of something, you need to tell
28 >portage that by using the format :
29 >
30 >emerge =name-version
31 >
32 >here are some examples:
33 >emerge -p xchat
34 >[ebuild R ] net-irc/xchat-2.0.8-r1
35 >
36 >
37 >emerge -p "<xchat-2"
38 >[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-panel-1.4.2-r2
39 >[ebuild N ] net-irc/xchat-1.8.11-r1
40 >
41 >emerge -p "=xchat-1.8.11"
42 >[ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-panel-1.4.2-r2
43 >[ebuild N ] net-irc/xchat-1.8.11
44 >
45 >
46 >emerge -p "=xchat-2.0.6-r1"
47 >[ebuild UD] net-irc/xchat-2.0.6-r1 [2.0.8-r1]
48 >
49 >
50 >
51 >
52 >
53 >Do theese examples make it clearer?
54 >
55 >
56 >//Spider
57 >
58 >--
59 >begin .signature
60 >Tortured users / Laughing in pain
61 >See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information.
62 >end
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