Gentoo Archives: gentoo-accessibility

From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Package installation
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 20:14:38
Message-Id: 20040512201436.GA17556@linux1.home
In Reply to: [gentoo-accessibility] Package installation by "David Renström"
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4 Hi David,
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6 On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:12:37PM +0200, David Renstr?m wrote:
7 > Hi again!
8 >
9 > I've got another question: How do you install a package whose name contains
10 > dashes (-), e.g. realplayer8-r7? Or links-2 for that matter. I always get
11 > an error saying something about a key and that I should probably add an
12 > equal sign. I guess I'm missing something fundamental here, so please tell
13 > me how to get around this. It's very annoying! :-) And speaking of
14 > annoying, I'm sorry for asking about alot of stuff that strictly doesn't
15 > have anything to do with accessibility, but the list doesn't seem to be
16 > overloaded for the moment anyway.
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18 If you are trying to install realplayer specifically, be aware that it has security vulnerabilities and has been hard masked. For information on that see this bug:
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20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40469
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22 If you are still intrested in installing this, you will have to unmask it with /etc/portage/package.unmask.
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24 Thanks,
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26 William
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