John Lange wrote: > I'd like to test the newest version of OpenOffice which is 2.0rc1. > > I have 1.1.4 installed currently. > > When I do emerge --search openoffice it does not show a 2.0 version as > being available. Is this because I need to "unmask" something or because > nothing past 1.1.4 is available in the ports yet? > > I'm a bit new to this portage system so I still seem to have problems > figuring out how to keep everything up to date plus sometimes access the > bleeding edge stuff.
Currently, those are only available with openoffice-bin. I am using 2.0.0rc1 right now. All you need to do is use the appropriate unmask in /etc/portage/package.unmask (you may need to create /etc/portage/ first: >=app-office/openoffice-bin-1.9.93 You may also need to set its keywords to ~x86, by adding the following in /etc/portage/package.keywords (or was it keyword? it's in the portage man page). I don't need to, as I am ~x86 globally: app-office/openoffice-bin ~x86 Tip: Create a binary package of your current openoffice or openoffice-bin before you merge, you can use that to quickly reinstall it if you have problems: quickpkg openoffice openoffice-bin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
