if you'd like to install the latest version of a package, but it's still masked by the ebuild maintainers (means it's not marked stable on your architecture yet), you can specify the exact version you'd like to install by typing "emerge -pv /usr/portage/<group>/<package name>/<specific version> . This will allow you to install any version that has an ebuild attached.
For example's sake, I emjoy testing the latest version of gaim (IM client). The newest *stable* package is .72-r1, but the latest release of gaim is .75. This is what it looked like when i went to emerge the new version. Legolas root # emerge -pv /usr/portage/net-im/gaim/gaim-0. gaim-0.67.ebuild gaim-0.74-r1.ebuild gaim-0.75-r3.ebuild gaim-0.72-r1.ebuild gaim-0.74-r2.ebuild gaim-0.75.ebuild gaim-0.72-r2.ebuild gaim-0.75-r1.ebuild gaim-0.72.ebuild gaim-0.75-r2.ebuild as you can see, although many new version of gaim and the ebuild have been added to the portage tree, .72-r1 is the latest stable. So you just hafta specify it manually. Hope that helps Brendan On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 05:19, Jon Lawrence wrote: > Hi, > I've been using Linux systems for about 7 years now but I'm very new to gentoo > so be gentle with me please. > I'm trying to emerge linhone. When I put 'emerge -p linphone' it shows the > newest version as 0.10.2 but I have an ebuild for 0.12.1 in my portage tree. > What gives ? > how do I tell my system to emerge linphone-0.12.1 ? > > Also, if I want to install some software which isn't in the portage tree, how > to I build the software so that it can be unmerged at a latter date ? - with > debian/redhat I'd use checkinstall for this. > > TIA > Jon Lawrence > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Brendan Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
