[gentoo-user] Blocking package is not actually installed

[John covici]

on Thursday 05/01/2008 Michael Sullivan(michael@××××××××××××.com) wrote
 > I'm trying to install a package that is being blocked by a package that
 > portage claims is not even installed:
 > 
 > catherine ~ # emerge -av =dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1
 > 
 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
 > 
 > Calculating dependencies... done!
 > [ebuild  N    ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1  395 kB 
 > [blocks B     ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
 > dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
 > 
 > Total: 1 package (1 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 395 kB
 > 
 > !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
 > installed
 > !!!        at the same time on the same system.
 > 
 > For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the
 > following
 > section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):
 > 
 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked
 > 
 > catherine ~ # emerge -pv dev-util/gtk-doc-am
 > 
 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
 > 
 > Calculating dependencies... done!
 > [ebuild  N    ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1  395 kB 
 > [blocks B     ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
 > dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
 > 
 > Total: 1 package (1 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 395 kB
 > 
 > What should I do?

What I did was to unmerge dev-util/gtk-doc and that seemed to fix
things.  You might want to look at a previous thread of a couple of
days ago which I started and was quite informative.

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