(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. -- /~\ The ASCII Andrej "Ticho" Kacian <andrej at kacian dot sk> \ / Ribbon Campaign GnuPG public key ID: 7CD93FE2 (pgp.mit.edu) X Against HTML Key fingerprint: / \ Email! E87D 9DEF 2A23 6FFB 7AD9 542F 4253 3A46 7CD9 3FE2
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