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From: Shawn Singh <callmeshawn@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:30:31
Message-Id: 7225537e0601031526h65a96dbje15b120a19f32b3a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi by Ernie Schroder
1 thank's all ... I'll see what solution works the best.
2
3 On 1/3/06, Ernie Schroder <schroder@×××××.net> wrote:
4 >
5 > Ernie Schroder wrote:
6 >
7 > > John Jolet wrote:
8 > >
9 > >>
10 > >> On Jan 3, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Shawn Singh wrote:
11 > >>
12 > >>> Hey all,
13 > >>>
14 > >>> When trying to emerge vi, emerge fails on step 1 of 3 because it
15 > >>> cannot find vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Here is a snippet from the
16 > >>> last bit of the run of emerge:
17 > >>>
18 > >>> 09:55:37 ERROR 404: Not Found.
19 > >>>
20 > >>> !!! Couldn't download vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Aborting.
21 > >>>
22 > >> try an emerge --sync.
23 > >>
24 > >>> I've been getting the same results for the past week and a half.
25 > >>> Any suggestions?
26 > >>>
27 > >>> Thanks,
28 > >>>
29 > >>> Shawn Singh
30 > >>
31 > >>
32 > >> From time to time, I find packages that I can't d'load from the site
33 > >> named in the ebuild. What I do in that case, is to google the package
34 > >> and dload it from another source. I then move it to
35 > >> /usr/portage/distfiles. Then a normal emerge <PACKAGE_NAME> will run.
36 > >
37 > > here is a source for it:
38 > >
39 > http://cvsup.de.openbsd.org/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2
40 >
41 >
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49 Shawn Singh

Replies

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[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get Vi Shawn Singh <callmeshawn@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi Catalin Neagoe <kta@××××××.ro>