Gentoo Archives: gentoo-accessibility

From: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremy@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Package installation
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:55:56
Message-Id: 1084391326.30818.3.camel@yuffie.outersquare.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-accessibility] Package installation by "David Renström"
1 if youu want to install a specific version, youu can do (for example):
2
3 emerge -v '=media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r1'
4
5 or
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7 emerge -v \=media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r1
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9 Note that becasue of the =, you need to escape it or put it in single
10 quotes.
11
12 --Jeremy
13
14 On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 12:12, David Renström wrote:
15 > Hi again!
16 >
17 > I've got another question: How do you install a package whose name contains
18 > dashes (-), e.g. realplayer8-r7? Or links-2 for that matter. I always get
19 > an error saying something about a key and that I should probably add an
20 > equal sign. I guess I'm missing something fundamental here, so please tell
21 > me how to get around this. It's very annoying! :-) And speaking of
22 > annoying, I'm sorry for asking about alot of stuff that strictly doesn't
23 > have anything to do with accessibility, but the list doesn't seem to be
24 > overloaded for the moment anyway.
25 >
26 > Regards,
27 > /David R.
28 >
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