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dechah
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 Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 12:59 pm Post subject: Simple question re emerging older rather than latest package |
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Can someone give me the command syntax to install xfree 4.2.0 rather than 4.2.1?
I already had xfree 4.2.1 installed, and so far I have successfully run
emerge unmerge xfree
However I cannot work out how to install xfree 4.2.0
I have tried emerge x11-base/4.2.0r12 but that didn't work, so I dropped the x11-base bit and still no go. How do I get emerge to install the older package, rather than the very latest?
Any help greatly appreciated
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duff
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| Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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You should be able to mask 4.2.1 in your package.mask file. Not on my Gentoo box right now, but I think you add the line
In your /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask file, it should ignore 4.2.1 and anything newer.
I might have the syntax of that line wrong, but you should be able to read the other ones in there to get the idea. |
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serty2
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| Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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you can also do it by issuing these commands :
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serty2 portage # cd x11-base/xfree/
serty2 xfree # ls
ChangeLog xfree-4.1.0-r6.ebuild xfree-4.2.1.ebuild
files xfree-4.2.0-r12.ebuild xfree-4.2.99.ebuild
serty2 xfree # emerge xfree-4.2.0-r12.ebuild
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that should emerge the version 4.2.0 |
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dechah
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| Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 1:41 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, this was a big help. I now have KDE 3.0.4 working with Gentoo 1.4
| serty2 wrote: | you can also do it by issuing these commands :
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serty2 portage # cd x11-base/xfree/
serty2 xfree # ls
ChangeLog xfree-4.1.0-r6.ebuild xfree-4.2.1.ebuild
files xfree-4.2.0-r12.ebuild xfree-4.2.99.ebuild
serty2 xfree # emerge xfree-4.2.0-r12.ebuild
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that should emerge the version 4.2.0 |
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kermitjunior
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| Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 2:04 am Post subject: Forum search would have revealed: |
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This is also in the bugs ( I know because I FINALLY got KDE today)
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9423
type this (literally):
emerge unmerge xfree
emerge =x11-base/xfree-4.2.0-r12
emerge kde
emerge unmerge =x11-base/xfree-4.2.0-r12
emerge =x11-base/xfree-4.2.1
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dechah
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| Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 2:02 am Post subject: Re: Forum search would have revealed: |
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Thanks for this, I have been too scared to unmerge xfree-4.2.0-r12, everything is working so well with it, that I see no reason to unmerge it for xfree-4.2.1
| kermitjunior wrote: | This is also in the bugs ( I know because I FINALLY got KDE today)
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9423
type this (literally):
emerge unmerge xfree
emerge =x11-base/xfree-4.2.0-r12
emerge kde
emerge unmerge =x11-base/xfree-4.2.0-r12
emerge =x11-base/xfree-4.2.1 |
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