Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to install NetBeans 6.5 doesn't work

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 13 December 2008 23:09:58 Yannick Mortier wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm currently trying to install NetBeans 6.5 but it just doesn't work.
> I always get a block when I try to to this.
>
> [blocks B     ] dev-java/ant-tasks ("dev-java/ant-tasks" is blocking
> dev-java/ant-core-1.7.1-r2)
>
>  * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
>  * installed at the same time on the same system.

This is a standard blocker, the process of how to deal with it is detailed in 
the handbook. But here goes:

You have an arch system as per your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. But look at the packages 
that want to be pulled in:

alan@nazgul ~ $ eix ant-tasks
* dev-java/ant-tasks
     Available versions:  1.7.0-r4 {X antlr bcel bsf commonslogging commonsnet 
elibc_FreeBSD jai javamail jdepend jmf jsch log4j oro regexp resolver}
     Homepage:            http://ant.apache.org/
     Description:         Meta-package for Apache Ant's optional tasks.

alan@nazgul ~ $ eix ant-core
[I] dev-java/ant-core
     Available versions:  1.7.0 1.7.0-r1 (~)1.7.0-r2 (~)1.7.1-r1 (~)1.7.1-r2 
{doc elibc_FreeBSD source}
     Installed versions:  1.7.1-r2(00:14:52 12/09/08)
(-doc -elibc_FreeBSD -source)
     Homepage:            http://ant.apache.org/
     Description:         Java-based build tool similar to 'make' that uses 
XML configuration files.

ant-task is stable, ant-core is unstable. So, you seem to have 
package-unmasked the ant stuff. The ant-core ebuild says that it completely 
blocks ant-tasks and ant-optional.

The best way to advise you what to do would be if you supply the output from 
the emerge you are running with the -t option. Without that my best guess 
would be:

emerge -avC ant-tasks
rerun the original emerge



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