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From: Paul Varner <fuzzyray@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:08:58
Message-Id: 1137690249.10030.3.camel@garath.homelinux.org
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package by Michael Kintzios
1 On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 15:32 +0000, Michael Kintzios wrote:
2 >
3 > > -----Original Message-----
4 > > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:neil@××××××××××.uk]
5 > > Sent: 19 January 2006 12:42
6 > > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
7 > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package
8 > >
9 > >
10 > > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:25:00 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote:
11 > >
12 > > > But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was
13 > > replaced by
14 > > > equery.
15 > >
16 > > qpkg does exist, but it has been deprecated, so it is not
17 > > installed into
18 > > your path any more. You can move it to /usr/local/bin from its current
19 > > location of /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-<version>/deprecated/qpkg/qpkg
20 >
21 > Or you could link it?
22 >
23 > # ln -s /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-<version>/deprecated/qpkg/qpkg
24 > /usr/bin/qpkg
25
26 Either solution will work, however, I highly recommend that you place
27 the link or copy of qpkg in /usr/local/bin. If you place it
28 in /usr/bin, you will get a file collision if you ever install
29 app-portage/portage-utils
30
31 Regards,
32 Paul
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