On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:27:40 +0000, askar k wrote: > When I do #emerge --usepkg <packagename> - sometimes it works, but > sometimes it doesn't work and bedins compiling. > For example, I wanted to install kde from package CD but it goes to > compiling, though I see a lot of tbz files for kde. > Can anybody tell what do I do wrong?
Because you have emerge sync'd since the packages CD was built, your portage tree contains newer versions of many of the packages, so emerge tries to install those. As there is no package available for the newer versions, it tries to download the source and compile. You need to use --usepkgonly (-K), --usepkg (-k) means "use a package if one is available, otherwise build from source. If that doesn't work, use specific version numbers to ensure the version on the CD is installed emerge -Kav =cate-gory/package-x.y.z-rN -- Neil Bothwick I am neither for nor against apathy.
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