[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get Vi

[Shawn Singh]

The emerge --sync fixed the problem. The previous emerge was looking
for a slightly older version (6.3 instead of 6.4).

Thanks all!

On 1/3/06, Shawn Singh <callmeshawn@×××××.com> wrote:
> thank's all ... I'll see what solution works the best.
>
> On 1/3/06, Ernie Schroder <schroder@×××××.net> wrote:
> >
> > Ernie Schroder wrote:
> >
> > > John Jolet wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> On Jan 3, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Shawn Singh wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Hey all,
> > >>>
> > >>> When trying to emerge vi, emerge fails on step 1 of 3 because it
> > >>> cannot find vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Here is a snippet from the
> > >>> last bit of the run of emerge:
> > >>>
> > >>> 09:55:37 ERROR 404: Not Found.
> > >>>
> > >>> !!! Couldn't download vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Aborting.
> > >>>
> > >> try an emerge --sync.
> > >>
> > >>> I've been getting the same results for the past week and a half.
> > >>> Any suggestions?
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks,
> > >>>
> > >>> Shawn Singh
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> From time to time, I find packages that I can't d'load from the site
> > >> named in the ebuild. What I do in that case, is to google the package
> > >> and dload it from another source. I then move it to
> > >> /usr/portage/distfiles. Then a normal emerge <PACKAGE_NAME> will run.
> > >
> > > here is a source for it:
> > >
> >
> http://cvsup.de.openbsd.org/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2
> >
> >
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