(Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:06:40 +0100)
And Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>   Benoit Cosandey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>  >Thus spake Jean Magnan de Bornier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 
>  >> >try to emerge maxima-5.9.0-r2
>  >> 
>  >> I am away from my internet connection now (on that machine where the
>  >> problem appears), and the version I have downloaded is maxima-5.9.0. I
>  >> will have to wait till january for any new download.
>  >> 
>  >> >by giving the whole path: emerge
>  >> >/usr/portage/sci-apps/maxima/maxima-5.9.0-r2 or something (sorry, not in
>  >> >front of gentoo ATM)
>  >> 
>  >> Giving the full path with  maxima-5.9.0 leads to the same error message.
>  >> 
> 
>  >Hi, hopefully to the list now:
>  >
>  >emerge maxima will emerge maxima 5.9.0, which does not emerge right for
>  >me. but :
>  >emerge /usr/portage/app-sci/maxima/maxima-5.9.0-r2.ebuild emerge the
>  >second to last maxima build, which does compile and install for me.
> 
>  [ ...]
>  Yes,it *worked*!
>  Thanks

`emerge /path/to/ebuild` is discouraged by the gentoo people, because it does
awful things to the portage - I don't remember what exactly right now.

`emerge =maxima-5.9.0-r2` should work in your case, and is said to be safe.

Cheers.
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