On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, CJoeB wrote: > Hi, > > First, I've looked on the archives, but didn't find anything that really > helped. > > The situation is that I need to install xz-utils but it is being blocked > by lzma-utils. > > One suggestion from the archives was to install an updated package of > eix and another one, but neither of these are installed on my system. > > Another post stated that the person was uncomfortable removing > lzma-utils because of the packages that depend on it. I feel the same > way because among others, core-utils and linux-headers depend on > lzma-utils, which has apparently been deprecated in favour of xz-utils. > > Has anyone solved this issue and if so, can you tell me what you did? > > Thanks in advance. > > Colleen
unmerge lzma-utils, emerge xg-utils. Yeah, it is really that easy.
