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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] FIXED: unmerge boo_boo
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:17:37
Message-Id: loom.20081031T211213-119@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge boo_boo by Markos Chandras
1 Markos Chandras <markos.chandras <at> gmail.com> writes:
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4 > > > Here I tried (re) emerge wget:
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6 > emerge e2fsprogs again after unemerging the older version. If wget doesnt work
7 > put the .tar.gz of sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.2 on your /usr/portage/distfiles and
8 > emerge it :)
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10 Many things failed. I could not use scp, or copy form a usbstick
11 nor a cd. Only downloading via a web browser worked for me.
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13 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2406&package_id=2374
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15 I had to download both:
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17 e2fsprogs-1.41.2.tar.gz
18 and e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2.tar.gz
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21 and put them in /usr/portage/distfiles/
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23 All is under way. Also the thread helped:
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25 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234907
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27 Thanks to all that helped.
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30 James