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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:10:08
Message-Id: AANLkTimMar-xGV5_yKyWXWQ-_57zW4AxwxPju1AX6zSw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict by Frank Schwidom
1 On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Frank Schwidom <schwidom@×××.net> wrote:
2 > Hi
3 >
4 > i get the error:
5 >
6 > {
7 > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been
8 > pulled
9 > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
10 >
11 > media-libs/libpng:0
12 >
13 >  ('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/libpng-1.4.3', 'merge') pulled in by
14 >    >=media-libs/libpng-1.2.43-r2:0 required by ('ebuild', '/',
15 >    >'x11-libs/cairo-1.8.10', 'merge')
16 >    >=media-libs/libpng-1.4 required by ('ebuild', '/',
17 >    >'x11-libs/gtk+-2.20.1-r1', 'merge')
18 >    (and 27 more)
19 > }
20 >
21 > And i wonder that it seems not to be possible to install both libs
22 > (libpng-1.2.43-r2:0, libpng-1.4) in the same time. Linux is actually
23 > able to manage this by the lib-version and links.
24 >
25 > Did i have overseen any gentoo switch that makes is possible? Or is
26 > there any other option?
27 >
28 > Regards
29 >
30 >
31 >
32 >
33
34 This was a big problem maybe a couple of months ago? I'm surprised you
35 made it this far!
36
37 There are some instructions here that will likely help:
38
39 http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update
40
41 Good luck,
42 Mark