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From: Dave Jones <Dave.Jones@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:15:29
Message-Id: 43D02A17.2030504@xs4all.nl
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package by Michael Kintzios
1 >>>But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was
2 >>replaced by equery.
3
4 >>qpkg does exist, but it has been deprecated, so it is not installed into
5 >>your path any more. You can move it to /usr/local/bin from its current
6 >>location of /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-<version>/deprecated/qpkg/qpkg
7
8 > Or you could link it?
9
10 > # ln -s /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-<version>/deprecated/qpkg/qpkg
11 > /usr/bin/qpkg
12
13 Try installing portage-utils, which has a new version of qpkg.
14
15 Works well for me.
16
17 qpkg seems to have disappeared from gentoolkit/bin since the latest
18 release of portage too, so unfortunately the link solution doesn't work
19 any more either.
20
21 Cheers, Dave
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>