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From: Catalin Neagoe <kta@××××××.ro>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:20:18
Message-Id: 43BBAE42.7020900@rdsnet.ro
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi by Shawn Singh
1 Yes, issue an emerge sync first. The explanation is that you still have
2 te ebuild-6.5.068 but the package itself don't exist anymore.
3
4 Shawn Singh wrote:
5 > thank's all ... I'll see what solution works the best.
6 >
7 > On 1/3/06, Ernie Schroder <schroder@×××××.net> wrote:
8 >
9 >>Ernie Schroder wrote:
10 >>
11 >>
12 >>>John Jolet wrote:
13 >>>
14 >>>
15 >>>>On Jan 3, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Shawn Singh wrote:
16 >>>>
17 >>>>
18 >>>>>Hey all,
19 >>>>>
20 >>>>>When trying to emerge vi, emerge fails on step 1 of 3 because it
21 >>>>>cannot find vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Here is a snippet from the
22 >>>>>last bit of the run of emerge:
23 >>>>>
24 >>>>>09:55:37 ERROR 404: Not Found.
25 >>>>>
26 >>>>>!!! Couldn't download vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Aborting.
27 >>>>>
28 >>>>
29 >>>>try an emerge --sync.
30 >>>>
31 >>>>
32 >>>>>I've been getting the same results for the past week and a half.
33 >>>>>Any suggestions?
34 >>>>>
35 >>>>>Thanks,
36 >>>>>
37 >>>>>Shawn Singh
38 >>>>
39 >>>>
40 >>>>From time to time, I find packages that I can't d'load from the site
41 >>>>named in the ebuild. What I do in that case, is to google the package
42 >>>>and dload it from another source. I then move it to
43 >>>>/usr/portage/distfiles. Then a normal emerge <PACKAGE_NAME> will run.
44 >>>
45 >>>here is a source for it:
46 >>>
47 >>
48 >>http://cvsup.de.openbsd.org/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2
49 >>
50 >>
51 >>--
52 >>gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
53 >>
54 >>
55 >
56 >
57 >
58 > --
59 > Shawn Singh
60 >
61
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi Shawn Singh <callmeshawn@×××××.com>