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From: Ernie Schroder <schroder@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:03:17
Message-Id: 43BAF2F8.3090809@ntplx.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi by John Jolet
1 John Jolet wrote:
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4 > On Jan 3, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Shawn Singh wrote:
5 >
6 >> Hey all,
7 >>
8 >> When trying to emerge vi, emerge fails on step 1 of 3 because it
9 >> cannot find vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Here is a snippet from the
10 >> last bit of the run of emerge:
11 >>
12 >> 09:55:37 ERROR 404: Not Found.
13 >>
14 >> !!! Couldn't download vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Aborting.
15 >>
16 > try an emerge --sync.
17 >
18 >> I've been getting the same results for the past week and a half. Any
19 >> suggestions?
20 >>
21 >> Thanks,
22 >>
23 >> Shawn Singh
24 >
25 > From time to time, I find packages that I can't d'load from the site
26 > named in the ebuild. What I do in that case, is to google the package
27 > and dload it from another source. I then move it to
28 > /usr/portage/distfiles. Then a normal emerge <PACKAGE_NAME> will run.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi Ernie Schroder <schroder@×××××.net>