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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:54:02
Message-Id: 42ED46F8.8090904@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE by Daniel D Jones
1 Daniel D Jones wrote:
2 > Currently running KDE 3.3. I get the following:
3 >
4 > root@Merlin:/# emerge --pretend kde-meta
5 >
6 > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
7 >
8 > Calculating dependencies ...done!
9 > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking
10 > kde-base/kscreensaver-3.4.1)
11 > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/khotkeys-3.4.1)
12 > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdesu-3.4.1)
13 > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking
14 > kde-base/kdebase-data-3.4.1)
15 > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kcminit-3.4.1)
16 > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking
17 > kde-base/khelpcenter-3.4.1-r1)
18 > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking
19 > kde-base/kcontrol-3.4.1-r1)
20 > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdm-3.4.1)
21 > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking
22 > kde-base/kdebugdialog-3.4.1)
23 > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/libkonq-3.4.1)
24 > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kicker-3.4.1)
25 > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kappfinder-3.4.1)
26 > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking
27 > kde-base/ksysguard-3.4.1-r1)
28 > ....
29 >
30 >
31 > And lots more, of course. Do I really have to uninstall 3.3 to install 3.4?
32 >
33
34 It's saying that you need to unmerge =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* because that package is split into the other ones you see there. You can fool portage into thinking it's not installed with "mv /var/db/pkg/kde-base/kdebase-3.4* /tmp" but do so at your own risk.
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36 Zac
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