On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 20:10 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > On a recently intstalled 2004.3 from stage2. I just ran an --update > portage as emerge was encouraging me to do. Somehow with that and > other installations and removal I've done in the last 2 days. I've > arrived at sort of catch 22. > > I'm told some packages are blocking an --update world. When I check > it out I see: > > [blocks B ] <x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 (is blocking > x11-base/opengl-update-2.1.1-r1)
Hey Harry, what command are you running when you get that message? What version of xorg-x11 do you have at present? It seems the answer may be this: Simply emerge xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 without the update flag, ie emerge xorg-x11 should do it. Then do the update thing. > > opengl-update is not installed. at least according to qpkg -I. And > because when I saw the message I thought I could move on by > uninstalling it. But the --update still fails. > > So, I thought I could just dodge it and update some of the other > stuff, but other packages are also being blocked by this situation. > > As a very new user... I'm not sure what to do about this > > Any recommendations? > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
