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

[Shawn Singh]

Thanks for the info. Before I could emerge --sync I had to update portage.
Once I did that, I was able to do the emerge --sync and then emerge vim.

Again, thank you all for your help.

Shawn

On 1/4/06, Catalin Neagoe <kta@××××××.ro> wrote:
>
> Yes, issue an emerge sync first. The explanation is that you still have
> te ebuild-6.5.068 but the package itself don't exist anymore.
>
> Shawn Singh 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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> >
> >
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Shawn Singh