File cannot be found

evilmegaman · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Posts: 4 Location: In a nutsack

I get a file cannot be found /usr/portage/distfiles//grep-2.5.4.tar.gz

Yes there are two /'s so something's not right.. thanks in advance
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Duck-Billed Platypus · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 2:05 am Post subject:

could you post the ebuild? It's /usr/portage/category/grep/grep-2.5.4.ebuild
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evilmegaman · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Posts: 4 Location: In a nutsack

here you go! http://uoflgaming.dyndns.org/gentoo/ those are the two that I found. though the one it wants has a different name..
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slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

And the real reason it's saying "file not found" is probably that it failed to fetch that file from the net.

To correct this you can either:
a) try emerging again later
or
b) find the file on your own on the net, download it yourself, move it to /usr/portage/distfiles , and finally emerge again where this time it'll use the file you moved and won't download.

evilmegaman · n00b Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Posts: 4 Location: In a nutsack

oh I forgot to say one part. file is corrupt or incomplete. digests do not match, and I just did removed the grep file and emerged again. it redownloaded and same thing
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slycordinator · Advocate Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 3065 Location: Korea

There could be a couple different things:

1) Maybe the server you're using to download from has a file that's broken.
If this is the problem it can be easily correct by downloading that same file from somewhere else, placing it in /usr/portage/distfiles, and emerging again (this time it'll use the downloaded file).
If this doesn't work then the problem is likely mentioned in 2).

2) Maybe the digest is wrong (has an incorrect md5sum for the file).
So maybe the file you're downloading is correct and the digest file is messed up. This can be corrected by removing the downloaded file from /usr/portage/distfiles (just to be safe), do an "emerge sync" (now the digest file should be fixed if it was messed up), and then emerge the package again where this time it should work.