The easiest thing I have found is to just download the tar.bz2's of the website and build it manually
Matt -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Gaffney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 November 2003 13:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging MPlayer Ken McLennan wrote: > G'day there One & All again, > > After getting oodles of assistance with my FreeBSD/fstab difficulties, I'm now back with another problem. (Hmmm... I hope this isn't the start of a trend). > > This time around I find that emerge is causing me grief. I've read man pages, forums, et al, with nothing useful coming to my notice but that's quite possibly a function of my powers of observation rather than the difficulty of what's happening. I entered, as root, emerge mplayer. All ran fine for a bit, downloading 'stuff', until the process reached font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2. It downloaded this one, and then seems to have tried to download it again (I think). I've tried to re-emerge mplayer, but it tries to continue with this file and I keep getting several attempts at different URLs with a corresponding 404 Not Found. Then I get: > > Continued download failed on this file, which conflicts with `-c'. > Refusing to truncate existing file `/usr/portage/distfiles/font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2'. > > Then the final entry is: > > >>>>Resuming download... >>>>Downloading http://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 > > --20:30:59-- http://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/fonts/font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 > => `/usr/portage/distfiles/font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2' > Resolving mplayerhq.hu... done. > Connecting to mplayerhq.hu[192.190.173.45]:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 416 Unknown > > The file is already fully retrieved; nothing to do. > > !!! Couldn't download font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2. Aborting. > > I've tried deleting the file but it simply downloads it again and then continues with the same result. At least I know that wget is working fine, since I'm exercising it so often, but I'd like to get Mplayer. Is anyone here knowledgeable regarding emerge? Or at least have more of a clue than I do? This is a common problem with mplayer. It isn't portage's fault. This problem occurs because the MPlayer developers release a newer version of the font tarball, but name it the same. Because of this, emerge has no idea which version of the tarball it is getting. Which version of MPlayer are you trying to emerge? -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.535 / Virus Database: 330 - Release Date: 01/11/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.535 / Virus Database: 330 - Release Date: 01/11/2003 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
