Thanks to all that responded. I've tried revdep-rebuild emerge --depclean revdep-rebuild
with no progress on the errors I have. I've unmerged cblas* blas* gsl, synced, and "emerge -uDN world "also without success (also tried cblas-external USE flag but could not see it with eix). eselect cblas also gave no results. One problem I may have is with eselect. eselect-cblas has been unmerged but trying to re-emerge it gives this block. emerge -vp eselect-cblas These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-cblas-0.1 0 kB [blocks B ] app-admin/eselect-cblas ("app-admin/eselect-cblas" is blocking sci-libs/lapack-reference-3.3.1-r1, sci-libs/gsl-1.15-r1) Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 0 kB Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (app-admin/eselect-cblas-0.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by eselect-cblas (sci-libs/lapack-reference-3.3.1-r1::science, installed) pulled in by >=sci-libs/lapack-reference-3.3 required by (virtual/lapack-3.3::science, installed) (sci-libs/gsl-1.15-r1::science, installed) pulled in by sci-libs/gsl required by (media-gfx/inkscape-0.48.2::gentoo, installed) >=sci-libs/gsl-1.14-r2 required by (virtual/cblas-2.0::science, installed) For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked Similar problem with eselect-blas and eselect-lapack. Any ideas before I try some more unmerging? Thanks Denis On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 18:34, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Valmor de Almeida > <val.gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 08/26/2011 08:12 AM, denis cohen wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I recently removed some packages like blas-reference, cblas-reference, >>> and lapack-reference to get emerge to run (some blocking issues). >>> Not sure that was a good idea because now, even if I've reinstalled >>> these packages, >>> I am having several new problems: >>> >> [snip] >>> >>> >>> Does anyone have an idea of how solve this problem? >>> >>> I'd be glad to provide more details. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Denis >>> >> >> Hi Denis, >> >> Have you done revdep-rebuild ? followed by a emerge --depclean ? before >> doing anything else after you removed the blas/lapack packages? > > revdep-rebuild > emerge --depclean > revdep-rebuild # Since emerge --depclean will warn that you should do > a revdep-rebuild after it. > > > -- > :wq > >