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From: Ernie Schroder <schroder@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:15:54
Message-Id: 43BAF653.8020603@ntplx.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi by Ernie Schroder
1 Ernie Schroder wrote:
2
3 > John Jolet wrote:
4 >
5 >>
6 >> On Jan 3, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Shawn Singh wrote:
7 >>
8 >>> Hey all,
9 >>>
10 >>> When trying to emerge vi, emerge fails on step 1 of 3 because it
11 >>> cannot find vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Here is a snippet from the
12 >>> last bit of the run of emerge:
13 >>>
14 >>> 09:55:37 ERROR 404: Not Found.
15 >>>
16 >>> !!! Couldn't download vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Aborting.
17 >>>
18 >> try an emerge --sync.
19 >>
20 >>> I've been getting the same results for the past week and a half.
21 >>> Any suggestions?
22 >>>
23 >>> Thanks,
24 >>>
25 >>> Shawn Singh
26 >>
27 >>
28 >> From time to time, I find packages that I can't d'load from the site
29 >> named in the ebuild. What I do in that case, is to google the package
30 >> and dload it from another source. I then move it to
31 >> /usr/portage/distfiles. Then a normal emerge <PACKAGE_NAME> will run.
32 >
33 > here is a source for it:
34 > http://cvsup.de.openbsd.org/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi Shawn Singh <callmeshawn@×××××.com>