Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Package installation

[David Renström]

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks alot. I'll try that. I tried adding the equal sign, but at the end 
rather than at the beginning... :-)

Regards,
/David R.
At 12:48 2004-05-12 -0700, you wrote:
>if youu want to install a specific version, youu can do (for example):
>
>emerge -v '=media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r1'
>
>or
>
>emerge -v \=media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r1
>
>Note that becasue of the =, you need to escape it or put it in single
>quotes.
>
>--Jeremy
>
>On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 12:12, David Renström wrote:
> > Hi again!
> >
> > I've got another question: How do you install a package whose name
> contains
> > dashes (-), e.g. realplayer8-r7? Or links-2 for that matter. I always get
> > an error saying something about a key and that I should probably add an
> > equal sign. I guess I'm missing something fundamental here, so please tell
> > me how to get around this. It's very annoying! :-) And speaking of
> > annoying, I'm sorry for asking about alot of stuff that strictly doesn't
> > have anything to do with accessibility, but the list doesn't seem to be
> > overloaded for the moment anyway.
> >
> > Regards,
> > /David R.
> >
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