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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: Gentoo Users List <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weirdness when emerging ffmpeg
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:41:15
Message-Id: 20121009003843.GA3885@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Weirdness when emerging ffmpeg by Walter Dnes
1 On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 12:58:37AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
2 >
3 > What is it whining about?!?! I want to overwrite it, not pull in a
4 > second version side-by-side. I tried the suggestion, but no luck...
5
6 [...deletia...]
7
8 > I said "screw it" (or words to that effect<G>), unmerged ffmpeg, and
9 > re-emerged it. The emerge is running as I type.
10
11 I don't know why, but there were indeed ffmpeg 0.10.2 and 0.10.3
12 versions installed. Doing...
13
14 emerge --unmerge ffmpeg
15 emerge ffmpeg
16
17 ...uninstalled the 0.10.3 version and re-installed it, which is not what
18 I wanted. What I had to do was...
19
20 emerge --unmerge ffmpeg (uninstalls 0.10.3)
21 emerge --unmerge ffmpeg (uninstalls 0.10.2)
22 emerge ffmpeg
23
24 revdep-rebuild did not detect any dependancies on 0.10.2.
25
26 --
27 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
28 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications