On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:53:54 -0800 (PST)
Eric Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> aragorn root # emerge sun-j2jre
> Calculating dependencies
> emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to
> satisfy "sun-j2jre".
> 
> !!! Error calculating dependancies. Please correct.
> aragorn root # emerge sun-j2sdk
> Calculating dependencies /
> !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=virtual/jdk-1.4"
> have been masked.
> !!!    (dependency required by
> "dev-java/sun-j2sdk-1.4.0-r2" [ebuild])
> 
> !!! Error calculating dependancies. Please correct.
> aragorn root #

It means that some packages which are required by sun-j2re are "masked".  ebuilds 
that, for whatever reason, aren't ready for general consumption yet are masked so that 
everyone who does an "emerge -u world" doesn't end up with an unstable system.  If you 
want to install it anyway, you have to comment out the part of 
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask that corresponds to sun-j2jre and it's dependencies.

BTW, I tried installing sun's jre from a tar.gz that i got from sun's site and it 
didn't work.  I never bothered to look into why, but i suspect that it had something 
to do with gcc 3.2.1.  Maybe someone else can elaborate on this some more..

KIRT

KIRT


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