, when you write files to
/home/mydir/mydata, do i put in something like ./mydata/filename as
the filename to open/write?
Many thanks!
Denis
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Thank you for all the quick replies! That answers my question :-)
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Thank you for all the quick replies! That answers my question :-)
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http
Actually a think my question must be Wich one did you use? correct?, I
wrote wrong, didn't I?
Yea, it should be Which one did you use? :-)
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freedb and will unfreeze only after
it gives up, maybe in 5-10 mins, with Error 22. Still, I am left to
fill the track info myself...
I use the recommended address:
URL: freedb.freedb.org/~cddb/cddb.cgi
Port: 80
Does anyone have any advice on how to solve this?
Thanks
-Denis
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Regards,
-Denis
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I did everything that the nvdia How To said - to the letter. :-)
Funny I did the same and never had any hiccups. ha.
The one time I got the error you got after updating the drivers was
when I forgot to remove the old running module and insert the new one
before starting X. Reading what you
Denis wrote:
And I still think nvidia cards are crap!
First, *Denis* did NOT write that Nvidia cards are crap - quite the
opposite actually. So don't anybody dare pinning this statement on me
in the future replies! ;)
Maybe it was some incompatibility with the 2.6.21-r4 kernel (I'm
using
On 8/9/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Nvidia installer does, but this doesn't happen when you install with
Portage. IMO, this is A Good Thing, you can install and compile a kernel
update then emerge nvidia-drivers to have the drivers available when you
boot into your new
When I was upgrading on one of the machines, I did encounter this same
error on a couple gnome-related ebuilds (I don't actually have either
gnome or kde desktops installed - only fluxbox). I ended up upgrading
XML-Parser, then did a revdep-rebuild, which told me to re-install
gettext, dbus, and
On 8/14/07, Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyway, it seems like there's a problem resolving emerge order I think
you must emerge -u expat, then XML-Parser, then revdep-rebuild, then auDNv
world.
Perhaps forcing rebuild of XML-Parser and gettext after updating expat would
be
My eselect kernel list was getting too long for my liking, so I
decided to remove some of the older kernel versions. I did
emerge -C sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-VERSION
for the versions I wanted to get rid of but soon discovered that
eselect kernel list hasn't gotten any shorter. Indeed, the old
After you emerge --sync, run emerge -NDpvu world and post here the
output - the list of software your system wants to install/upgrade -
that should give us a better idea of what kind of an upgrade we're
dealing with here.
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, and keyboard drivers, as the
instructions told me - but X still wouldn't launch because the loader
complained that it can't find freetype and vga modules. Are these
modules phased out of the new xorg-server, or am I needing to rebuild
something else still?
Thanks!
Denis
immediately get any creative ideas, but
might someone offer some advice for how to accomplish this?
Many thanks,
Denis
,
or series of tasks, then I'd certainly look into how to deal with
patches and overlays.
Again, thanks to this wonderful community :-)
-Denis
In your /etc/ssh/ssh_config (not sshd_config), make sure you have:
ForwardAgent yes
ForwardX11 yes
I used to get the same error, and after I enabled these options, it
worked like it should. I also do ssh -Y u...@machine - but that may
be redundant, I'm not sure.
Denis
Few words of advice. Bottom post and email text only.
but with sufficient clipping of the text that you're including in the reply :)
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sound card?
This is a Toshiba Satellite L25-S119 laptop. I actually run Windows
XP on it just because I need to for the specialty software I have to
use.
Any thoughts (other than buying another laptop!) would be appreciated :)
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I wanted to see if there's a way to set up a home recording
mini-studio using Linux. In Windoze, there's things like Cubase,
Ableton, Reason, Wavelab, etc... What's available in Linux for that
purpose (recording, sequencing, mixing, sound effects), and which of
those does Gentoo have in the
(splash.xpm.gz) under /usr/share/grub, and
moving it to /boot/grub fixed this issue for me.
Denis
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,
Denis
Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.24-gentoo-r7 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:15:01 +
app-shells
Run python-updater.
Cheers, Dave
That is pulling in two different versions of Samba into the tree:
* Starting Python Updater from 2.4 to 2.5 :
* Adding to list: =net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.2.27
* Adding to list: =dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1
* Adding to list:
accomplished: emerge -NDavu world works fine now!
Many thanks,
Denis
The Open Office seems to run ok, but at start-up, I get the following message:
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
I tried putting JRE in my PATH, just in case, but that didn't seem to
help... Anyone know a resolution to this?
Um no - it was Russian SPAM.
The message said Apartments for Sale!
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There are language-specific mailing lists, see
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml
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This probably was already discussed at length... But I keep waiting
for an automatic portage tree fix to this... Any idea if there will
be a fix, or will I need to take care of this manually? (Intel Core
Duo 32-bit system, FYI).
I did this
emerge -f e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs
emerge -C com_err ss
but it still complained about blocks when I tried emerge e2fsprogs
So I had to do
emerge -C e2fsprogs
emerge e2fsprogs
This seems to work fine - no more blocks.
Thank you,
Denis
, and everything runs fine - no
network problems at all!
Is this a known problem, or have I run into a freak case of bad luck?
Cheers,
Denis
Looks like there are other bugs filed elsewhere on the net about E1000
not loading with the 2.6.27 kernel.
Here's a curious note from
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/275611
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If I remove the line of the card in
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and boot
, that e1000e driver someone mentioned - how is it different from
the e1000 driver, and does the kernel float two versions, or it
depends on which kernel it is?
Thanks,
Denis
* select (since I don't
know which chips the machine has). Does anyone have any tips on this?
Many thanks,
Denis
You can use the lspci command, its in the pciutils package (if I'm
not mistaken) to get your system hardware information.
Just like magic :-) Thank you so much!
Denis
help at all. Anyone run
into this before and might know what to do about this?
Thanks,
Denis
That certainly is of interest - I never had this happen before, and I
always used nvidia cards (when possible). This one is an older Dell
with Radeon 7500 in it... Maybe it's a sign that it's dying or
something. Or maybe it's something else entirely.
And for the drivers list only -- lspci -k
Cuts out all the extras that you're very unlikely to need :D
You the man! Very nice information there.
Dale
you mean... as in man lspci? ;-)
they suggested moving the dynamic libraries somehow :
changing
the location of the shared libraries in memory by changing the
variable __PAGE_OFFSET in kernel header files...
How do I do that and do i need to recompile the kernel after
attempting something like this?
Thanks!
Denis
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Once I got an email from the gentoo-user list manager saying that it
failed to deliver a message from the list to my G-Mail account. So
far, it's just been once. What's going on? Does G-Mail have serious
issues to resolve? I haven't had complaints from any one of my
friends about not being
I have this all the time, and from real people too (ie not lists). I
regularly get messages saying that a mail server has been trying for a
day to get to me etc...
Hm, that isn't good. Makes me wonder if I missed any emails from
people. I wasn't aware of this until recently. Hotmail had
That's right. When I send a message with a new subject to the list,
GMail saves the message to a new thread that it starts in my Sent-Mail
folder with that subject line. I do not get an email from the list
sending me my own message. Then, if someone replies to my post, GMail
adds the message to
heck I got 99 invites just collecting dust... :)
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response, so that there's a
conversation-like flow.
We should make an effort to keep personal stuff out of these lists.
Everyone has enough problems of their own to start a drama. We just
want to help each other out, further our knowledge, and contribute if
we can be useful.
Cheers
Denis
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My partition table is as follows, if it helps resolve this:
/dev/sda1 -- /boot (200MB)
/dev/sda2 -- SWAP (2GB)
/dev/sda3 -- / (25GB)
/dev/sda4 -- /usr (20GB)
/dev/sdb1 -- /home (47GB)
I am running an Intel x86-based system. Would appreciate any help.
Denis
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Getting the obvious out of the way first, do you have free space
on /usr/portage?
Neil - I doubt that could be a problem. I have 20 GB allocated to
/usr partition alone! I think portage couldn't have filled all that
up - I have had no problems of the sort on other machines, where my
/usr
Running df shows that /usr partition is at 18% use. However,
running du gives more input/output errors...
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Let's stop replying to this thread and let it die already, please?
There's no Save-A-Thread society after you here...
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. and -I./src/common in its
statement above, I figure the notation is probably consistent.
So why oh why am I getting the HAVE_CONFIG_H not found error
message?? What's wrong with the linking?
Appreciate any help
Denis
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supposed to invoke gcc on that line? that 'CC=gcc mcc' construction is a
little odd. looks like the Makefile is broken - have you chosen
Boy this one was messy, but I figured it out. It turns out that
there's another mcc compiler from MatLab, and it was installed on my
system in /usr/bin.
info, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/123342
!!! ERROR: sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 failed.
!!! Function pkg_setup, Line 43, Exitcode 0
!!! your expr is broke
It appears that I have no previous version of coreutils showing on my
system... Anyone know of a way to fix this?
Denis
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it, and it doesn't give any output at all.
Denis
On Thursday 01 March 2007 18:35:54 Denis wrote:
I was emerging coreutils to update portage, and it failed with the
following:
emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 to /
--- SNIP md5 messages ---
/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1: /bin/expr
Many thanks - it worked... the Portage is now current, which I cannot
say for the rest of my system... ugh. I think eventually I'll just
have to make an archive of my home directory and clean-slate install
the latest Gentoo distro. There are too many dangling ends from back
when - would
I'm looking into upgrading to Intel Core 2 Duo (or Quad) family -
perhaps the E6600 Conroe. I'm trying to figure out which
motherboard/chipset would suit my needs best. I'm planning to install
Gentoo Linux on the system, and I need it to be, first and foremost,
stable and reliable - mainly to
it be normal for a 2.6 kernel to recognize dual-core
processors as one processor the way it appears currently in top,
or should they appear as two and I did something wrong in configuring?
Thanks,
Denis
.config
Description: Binary data
Crap! I totally forgot that I need ACPI support in the kernel for an
SMP system to work the way I expected. I guess I can load my .config
file, edit it inside menuconfig, and recompile the kernel. I forgot -
do I need to clean out any of the stuff from this kernel before I can
recompile it, or
Great - just recompiled the kernel, and the problem is solved. I can
see 4 cpu's in top, and 2 cores are recognized in /proc/cpuinfo.
Many thanks!
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I am upgrading from gcc-4.1.1-rX to gcc-4.1.2... Is it safe to just
emerge the new version, or do I need to do emerge -eav system and
emerge -eav world, as the gcc upgrade guide suggests? Do I need to
rebuild libtool every time I upgrade gcc?
Thanks!
Denis
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the font in Firefox menus and URL bar larger?
Thanks, and I apologize in advance if my questions are too simplistic
or have already been asked many times before...
-Denis
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I apologize - please disregard my post.
I edited userChrome.css, and that did it, and also set the minimum
font size to 16. I'm satisfied now :-)
Denis
On 5/20/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just got done setting up the Xorg-7.2 and Fluxbox, and after
compiling and running Firefox-2
I love the spiffy look of the Eterm, and it seems pretty fast with
bash_completion, so I really tried to customize it to my liking, but
so far I failed (probably due to my n00bness). The thing with Eterm
on my system is that when the color scheme is applied, the colored
characters are poorly
For some reason, my SSH (openssh-4.5_p1-r1) refuses to remember any
hosts I connect to, and even if I keep connecting to the same machine
over and over, it still wants me to OK the RSA fingerprint manually.
Here's the verbose output when I try to connect to a known machine:
ssh -v
You probably moved your home directory using root, or something like that.
I don't remember doing that, but maybe I missed something during an
install, who knows...
chown username: /home/username/.ssh
chown username: /home/username/.ssh/*
chmod 700 /home/username/.ssh
chmod 600
Are these any options in the kernel and in the gcc to optimize for
Intel's Core 2 Duo chips? When I set up my gentoo box for the Pentium
Processor Extreme Edition (dual core prescott), I just used
-march=prescott in make.conf
Which -march flag would be the most relevant gcc optimization for
After reading some docs, the impression I get is that the 'nocona'
flag is for building a 64-bit system... For a 32-bit system, it seems
like 'prescott' would be the choice, wouldn't it?
This from the GCC website about 4.2.0 release changes:
IA-32/x86-64
* -mtune=generic can now be used to
On 5/24/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bear in mind that GCC is almost certainly masked for good reason. It's
not like you're using a binary distro and only need a compiler for a few
packages. Feel free to try it in the knowledge that if it breaks your
system, you get to keep the
This is the first time ever that I ended up with an unbootable kernel
after a new install, and I have no idea where to start. This is a
fresh install of Gentoo 2007.0 minimal CD stage 3, using the x86 quick
install guide.
Here's the error I get at boot while the kernel is loading its device
like copying the relevant parts of dmesg for us to see?
maybe it is a missing sata-driver, missing scsi-disk support?
I wanted to attach a dmesg output but I don't know how where I can
extract it. It's a fresh install, and the only way I can boot right
now is with the Gentoo CD... The file
I have an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
processor. One Seagate SATA drive. An IDE CD-RW. Pretty much all
the controllers on the board are Intel.
I did re-set the clock, after which the make stopped complaining.
One concern I have - when I configure the kernel, I
Device Drivers:
Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers ---
one below scsi, two below ide.
Yes, I combed through that and set all the necessary options there
before, so I doubt this is the problem...
I've just reconfigured the kernel and recompiled it on another fresh
...
Thanks to everyone who chimed in!
-Denis
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I have ran into things like this before, I usually run make mrproper
from within the kernel directory to make sure there is no old cruft
laying around in there.
In my case, it was a fresh install, which made it quite a bit more
painful to fix because I had to go through the procedures twice and
What makes the difference between a 64 bit kernel, and a 32 bit kernel?
Use of 64-bit machine code [*], particularly instructions that make use of
64-bit native[**] registers[***].
Is there any slowdown for the 64-bit set-up when it has to run 32-bit software?
Aside from not having the
On 5/25/07, Andreas Claesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since you (Denis) are doing a lot of mathematical calculations you
will probably benefit from running in 64bit mode.
I often need to run Monte Carlo simulations (in C) which involve a lot
of array storage and array scanning/searching
Having done this several times now, you have to select the following
in the kernel:
-SMP support and SMP Scheduling (only for processors with Hyperthreading)
-Enhanced Real Time Clock (RTC) support
-ACPI (in the power management menu)
Without ACPI support, only one processor will be recognized,
I think I'll attempt to set up one of my EM64T boxes in 64-bit Gentoo
environment, so I've been reading some docs about it. I understand
that the multilib profile allows for having 32-bit libraries and being
able to run 32-bit binaries, whereas no-multilib restricts you to a
purely 64-bit
Bug?
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I find it convenient using ufed - the ncurses USE flag editor - to
change/set USE flags.
What does the following warning in ufed mean: Never enable any flags
other than those specified in /etc/make.conf?
It seems that ufed writes all the USE flags selected to
/etc/make.conf, including both
I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current
without it becoming a full-time job. I'm not talking about
maintaining servers - just your daily driver, so to say.
How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare it
your versions in world? Should one do this
All these responses are very helpful - thanks for taking your time to reply!
Yea, my needs are pretty simple - just maintaining computational
workstations (one at home, one at work) - I am the primary user. I am
not running any servers on either box. I've never used cron - I
haven't felt the
On 5/29/07, Tim Allinghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Last thing before I hop off each night, emerge --sync followed by a -pv
-uDN world, if I'm happy I fire it up and head to bed :)
I'm sure that makes for particularly sweet dreams ;-)
One thing I've wondered about... When you update X or
On 5/29/07, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use 'gunzip -c /proc/config.gz .config make oldconfig'
consistently, never had a problem. I always keep a working kernel in
Oh neat-o! I didn't know there was a copy of the running config in /proc...
Does this basically just insert the
While we're on the subject of administration, I have a question about
emerge. Sometimes emerge would display important information in green
or yellow stars after it's finished merging a package - such as
warnings or valuable tips. However, if emerge is processing several
packages in a chain, it
I read the man make.conf and also the make.conf.example. Seems
pretty clear, except what is the qa option for the
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES variable? And I assume the info option logs
all the green-star stuff at the end of emerge?
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Hi all...
This is the output of emerge --info for the Gentoo box that I'm
still configuring - fresh install. I configured and compiled a
working version of the kernel, configured CFLAGS and USE flags, etc.
I also ran emerge -eD system and emerge -eD world and updated /etc
configs accordingly.
On 5/30/07, Ric de France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think what is more useful is --prune (I'm guessing as I'm not in
front of a Gentoo box at the moment). I usually try:
# emerge -Pp
Here's the output:
myhost etc # emerge -Pp
These are the packages
While on the subject, I ran a pretend on revdep-rebuild, and it's
complaining about some broken libraries in GCC...
[SNIP]
broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgcjawt.la (requires
/usr/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.la)
broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgij.la
broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgcjawt.la (requires
/usr/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.la)
broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgij.la (requires
/usr/lib/libgcj.la)
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728#c29
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When I first installed and configured all ALSA-related things, the
sound was working perfectly fine, and I was quite pleased. Now, about
a week later, I've started picking up this rather annoying scratchy
static noise while using Audacious.
Some stats: Intel D955XBK motherboard with an
Try to reduce the PCM channel to max. 80%. The higher I set PCM, the more
scratchy the sound gets.
Elias - I played around with the alsamixer quite a bit, but the noise
is present even at the substantially lower levels. I wish it were as
simple as that ;-)
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What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked
the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage.
Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more
fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I
am just having no luck
I'll have a look at Amarok. Was XMMS removed for licensing issues?
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Amarok is feature-rich, but heavy indeed. I don't recommend it for a
drop-in XMMS replacement. If you like the idea of editing mp3 tags and
organzing your music really nicely, browsing it 3 different ways and
seeing cover art from amazon.com and such, amarok is for you.
Ha... yea, my use
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alsaplayer?
it is small, fast, you can run douzends of instances at the same time. Play
forwards, backwards, at a lot of different speeds - and it has even a
playlist.
I did want to try the alsaplayer, but when I try to emerge it,
evidence that HT drastically takes away from true P4 power, then I'd
definitely like to know about it.
Thanks
Denis
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being able to do other
things... I don't have any complaints.
Denis
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Linux?
What would be some issues and software limitations for me in trying to
get the AMD Opterons running on Gentoo? And would I use an x86
platform or an AMD64 platform?
Thanks!
Denis
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I was leaning toward the Opterons myself.
While we're on the topic of hardware, has anyone here used Tyan S2895
Thunder K8WE? I understand it's an NVIDIA-based high-end board that
supports dual Opterons. I've always liked Tyan's products, as well as
NVIDIA's, so I would be happy with such a
Bob,
Thanks for that detailed write-up. I don't pretend to have any
understanding of the architecture of the new dual-core Opterons, but I
did want to clarify a couple things...
I was under the impression that the Opterons didn't have the same type
of a NorthBridge bottleneck that Intel
Ok, I felt compelled to find more info on the issue that Bob raised
with the memory bandwidth limitation on the Opterons, and here is an
excerpt from an article on anandtech.com on this issue:
The one limitation that both AMD and Intel have is bandwidth. In
order to maintain compatibility with
I read AnandTech. And many other reviews by now. But since I've been
out of hardware buying venture for a long time, I figured I'd read up
on the specs directly from the manufacturers' websites first and then
the reviews. I can't say I am handy with different relationships
between front size
of fixing this, or is downgrading the only option?
Thanks,
Denis
P.S. System completely up to date with all latest portage updates,
running kernel 2.6.27-gentoo-r8, alsa-plugins-1.0.20,
alsa-utils-1.0.20-r5, alsa-lib-1.0.20-r1, audacious-2.1,
audacious-plugins-2.1-r1.
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