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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Here is an amazing thing re OpenOffice:
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:45:07
Message-Id: 9acccfe5050907233278bb9b95@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Here is an amazing thing re OpenOffice: by Michael Crute
1 Actually, when I do what you say, I get
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3 treat portage # emerge -a openoffice-bin
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5 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
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7 Calculating dependencies ...done!
8 [blocks B ] app-office/openoffice (is blocking app-office/openoffice-
9 bin-1.9.122)
10 [ebuild N ] app-office/openoffice-bin-1.9.122
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12 !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
13 installed
14 !!! on the same system.
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16 treat portage #
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19 On 9/7/05, Michael Crute <mcrute@×××××.com> wrote:
20 >
21 > On 9/7/05, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:
22 > >
23 > > I am using gentoo because I want to be able to compile the latest and
24 > > greatest.
25 > > How odd it is that I can only find OpenOffice 1.1.4, where the
26 > > FedoraCore
27 > > machines at my school have had OpenOffice 2.0 all (Summer) term.
28 > >
29 > > I've not done a lot with masked versions, but I do have universe,
30 > > multiverse and
31 > > backports. I see no signs of 2.0.
32 > >
33 > > How can this be, gen-too-ers? Surely, I'm missing something. What did I
34 > > mess up?
35 > >
36 > > --
37 > > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
38 > >
39 >
40 > Actually your Fedora boxes weren't running 2.0 they where running 1.9which is the beta for
41 > 2.0. If you want to run that on Gentoo you need to add
42 > `app-office/openoffice-bin` to your /etc/portage/package.unmask and
43 > `app-office/openoffice-bin ~x86` to your /etc/portage/package.keywords file
44 > then emerge openoffice-bin. You didn't miss a thing, its just hard masked
45 > development. because it's not stable and it does crash often enough but its
46 > well worth the install.
47 >
48 > Also as far as I know there is no such thing as universe, multiverse, and
49 > backports gor Gentoo. In any case good luck getting it running, once you get
50 > it unmasked its just as easy as the "real deal" (if you will).
51 >
52 > -Mike
53 >
54 > --
55 > ________________________________
56 > Michael E. Crute
57 > Software Developer
58 > SoftGroup Development Corporation
59 >
60 > Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware.
61 > "In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?"
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67 Go back to the top: I almost always top-post
68 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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