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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks with xz-utils lzma-utils
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:27:06
Message-Id: 58965d8a0912170826m68bff42ahf8114ed7da3305db@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Blocks with xz-utils lzma-utils by Dale
1 On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > I'm trying to get KDE 4 where I can use it so I used the layman to get the
3 > latest. Anyway, I seem to have ran into a Block, may not be related to KDE4
4 > tho, that I just can't make sense of. This is the error I get:
5 >
6 > [blocks b ] kde-base/kde-meta:4.3[-kdeprefix]
7 > ("kde-base/kde-meta:4.3[-kdeprefix]" is blocking kde-base/kde-meta-9999)
8 > [blocks B ] app-arch/lzma-utils ("app-arch/lzma-utils" is blocking
9 > app-arch/xz-utils-9999)
10 > [blocks B ] app-arch/xz-utils ("app-arch/xz-utils" is blocking
11 > app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7)
12 >
13 > Total: 278 packages (17 upgrades, 19 new, 242 in new slots, 248 uninstalls),
14 > Size of downloads: 240,422 kB
15 > Conflict: 511 blocks (2 unsatisfied)
16 > Portage tree and overlays:
17 > [0] /usr/portage
18 > [1] /usr/local/portage/layman/kde
19 >
20 > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
21 > * installed at the same time on the same system.
22 >
23 > ('ebuild', '/', 'app-arch/xz-utils-9999', 'merge') pulled in by
24 > app-arch/xz-utils required by ('installed', '/',
25 > 'app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0.0.3g', 'nomerge')
26 > app-arch/xz-utils required by ('installed', '/', 'sys-libs/gpm-1.20.5',
27 > 'nomerge')
28 > app-arch/xz-utils required by ('installed', '/', 'dev-libs/mpfr-2.4.1_p1',
29 > 'nomerge')
30 > (and 10 more)
31 >
32 > ('ebuild', '/', 'app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7', 'merge') pulled in by
33 > app-arch/lzma-utils required by ('installed', '/',
34 > 'app-portage/eix-0.17.0', 'nomerge')
35 > app-arch/lzma-utils required by ('installed', '/',
36 > 'app-arch/libarchive-2.7.0-r1', 'nomerge')
37 >
38 >
39 > I didn't post the whole thing but the part about the Blocks with a capital
40 > B. I have unmerged both lzma-utils and xz-utils but I still get this error.
41 > How can they block it when they are not installed yet? I'm missing
42 > something here. I just don't see it.
43 > I found a thread on the forums and did what it said but I still get this.
44 > It said to unmerge xz-utils which I did. Then I unmerged lzma-utils for
45 > good measure.
46 >
47 > Someone tell me the trick to this? Thanks.
48 >
49 > Dale
50 >
51 > :-) :-)
52
53 xz-utils replaces lzma-utils, so you can't have them both installed at
54 once. Maybe try unmerging and re-emerging the packages that say they
55 depend on lzma-utils, they've probably been updated to use xz-utils
56 instead by now.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks with xz-utils lzma-utils Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>