On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
The only thing I can say on my own behalf is that there was once a
time when it wasn't so far fetched to start emerge -vC 'ing stuff.
Many thing's can be removed with `emerge -C` and recovered from, but I doubt
unmerging
On 24/08/2015 15:35, Harry Putnam wrote:
Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de writes:
I'd recommend you then just to reinstall. Remembering my fights with
stupid error messages from emerge, and so on, I wish I'd just
reinstalled months earlier than I did.
Thanks for the frank suggestions and noted
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On 24/08/15 23:59, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel
a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 09:35:36AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de writes:
I'd recommend you then
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 09:35:36AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de writes:
I'd recommend you then just to reinstall. Remembering my fights with
stupid error messages from emerge, and so on, I wish I'd just
reinstalled months earlier than I did.
Thanks for the
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel
a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 09:35:36AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de writes:
I'd recommend you then just to reinstall. Remembering my fights with
stupid error messages from emerge, and so
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:46 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Hello Harry. Gentoo has the handbook for it's main install. A bit of a drag
but good for for a refresher or leaning.
Rich put up an excellent set of VM gentoo install instructins [1]:
My main goals with those notes (I
On 24/08/2015 16:46, Harry Putnam wrote:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
Working thru all the guff with all you posters patient help would
probably have been the best but between posting and seeing answers
(suring the morning in the wee hours). I jumped stupid and starting
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Or you can get a binary package from anywhere else you trust.
My personal favourite: chroot into a stage3 and quickpkg gcc. Then copy to
your install and voila.
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
So, I've made the mess considerably worse... maybe unsolvable since I
have no gcc now and so no way to grind out the builds plus other
truly boneheaded uninstalls that appear to have rendered my system
unusable
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:36 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Are you going to roll out some notes on putting
raid-1::btrfs onto HD? Or just the VM install?
The notes should work just fine for installing that on an HD. Is
there something you found missing in them?
The only thing
On 24/08/2015 18:49, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Or you can get a binary package from anywhere else you trust.
My personal favourite: chroot into a stage3 and quickpkg gcc. Then copy to
your install and voila.
I knew there was a way to do it,
Alan McKinnon wrote:
[1] Reminds me of an old joke:
Q: What's the second worst sound you can hear a sysadmin make?
A: Uh-oh
Q: And the worst sound?
A: Oops
Looks like you had an oops moment there
I have quite a few of those Uh oh moments. I think top on my list tho is
oh crap. :-(
Thanks Steve,
Finally, I solved my problem with your advices.
Cheers,
Arnau
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:25:10 +0200
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Yep. It's saying, that any version before 1.5.2 is blocking.
So, do:
emerge -C 'media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.2'
# emerge -C 'media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.2'
--- Couldn't find 'media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.2' to unmerge.
No packages
On Friday 28 September 2007, Arnau Bria wrote:
--- Couldn't find 'media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.2' to unmerge.
No packages selected for removal by unmerge
is it normal?
According to your earlier post you don't have any versions of splashutils
installed, so yes this is normal:
*
On Friday 28 September 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Yep. It's saying, that any version before 1.5.2 is blocking.
So, do:
emerge -C 'media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.2'
Or if you'd rather not remove splashutils, you'll need to tell portage you're
happy to run version 1.5.2 which is currently marked
On Friday 28 September 2007, Arnau Bria wrote:
Ok, so, why is portage blocking the update?
It's not an update, it's a new install.
Something else which is installed (and probably wanting to be updated) is
trying to pull in splashutils-1.5.2 or later as a dependency. As this
version is not
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:57:54 +0100
Steve Dommett wrote:
On Friday 28 September 2007, Arnau Bria wrote:
According to your earlier post you don't have any versions of
splashutils installed, so yes this is normal:
Ok, so, why is portage blocking the update?
* media-gfx/splashutils
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:30:43 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
From time to time an emerge world fails to update every possible
package because of a failure with one that causes the whole process
to fail. I remember reading about a tool which would continue to
upgrade/install packages
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