This means that the software you wish to install has been held back by developers because of a buggy install-file or anything else undesirable. see
http://gentoowiki.iq-computing.de/index.php?pagename=PackageMask you shouldn't unmask a package unless you know what you're doing. give it some time, and fire an `emerge rsync` and try again (my signature tells best, my friend). you could always get the source from somewhere else and compile it yourself, but then you'd just be defeating the purpose of portage in general... best of luck, lion-O On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:53:54PM -0800, Eric Miller 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 # > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- ''Wisdom is the companion of patience'' ,-~~-.___. / | ' \ ( ) 0 \_/-, ,----' ==== // / \-'~; /~~~(O) / __/~| / | =( _____| (_________| Brett Ryan Campbell Systems Administrator, CAD Research Center Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 http://www.cadrc.calpoly.edu/frameset_content/content_about_us.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
