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On 2008-01-17, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thursday 17 January 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> Why won't portage let me install kompare? |
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>> # emerge --pretend kompare |
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>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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>> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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>> [ebuild N ] kde-base/kompare-3.5.7 USE="arts -debug |
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>> -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama" [blocks B ] |
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>> =kde-base/kompare-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7) [blocks B |
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>> ] =kde-base/kdesdk-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kompare-3.5.7) |
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>> How does one figure out where these "blocks" are coming from? |
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>> There are no other versions of kompare installed. |
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>> kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7 _is_ installed. There is no mention of |
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>> kde<anything> in /etc/portage/*. |
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> The solution is a little more complex than in Michael's reply and this |
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> may take a while :-) |
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> Essentially you are trying to install one of the individual packages |
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> from a -meta package at the same time as a corresponding monolithic |
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> package,and portage is correctly refusing to let you do this. |
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Sure, it makes sense now. :) |
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Thanks for the explanation. |
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Grant Edwards grante Yow! I was making donuts |
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at and now I'm on a bus! |
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