emerge system unzip550.tar.gz problems (solved)

jusino · n00b Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 17 Location: Denver, CO

Top o' the morning, all.

Working on my first Gentoo install in an attempt to resurrect an old Dell Latitude CPi DX300T with 128MB memory and make it useful. Since it's my first time out, I'm trying a stage 2 installation, and have done as much of it over the network as possible. I do, though, have a copy of the universal live CD (version2004.2, I think).

Anyway, I'm having trouble with "emerge system". It fails when trying to download unzip550.tar.gz. I've googled around a bit to see if I can find the file elsewhere, but it seems that there's a new version (unzip551.tar.gz) which has replaced all the 550 versions.

Can I just download the new one and stick it somwhere and emerge it that way? Will this cause problems later on?

While I'm asking questions, I've noticed that when I try "emerge system," most often the program tries to connect to like 5 or 6 hosts before it finds one (most of the time failing with "404 not found" or "host not found").

Is this normal?

Thanks for any help!
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infecticide · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:23 am Post subject:

try an emerge sync, there maybe an ebuild for the new version, afaik you can't get the new version and rename it because portage performs an MD5 checksum on the file before untarring it so the checksum would fail and as a result so would the merge.

jusino · n00b Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 17 Location: Denver, CO

I'll give that a shot. I ran the emerge sync only a few hours before trying to emerge the system, though.

Anyway, we'll see.

Thanks!
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jusino · n00b Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 17 Location: Denver, CO

But I ran emerge --sync this morning, and started emerge system before leaving for work. If it works, great. If not, I've found a copy of the older file here:
http://afs.caspur.it/afs/italia/project/casis/html/src/File/unzip550.tar.gz

So the next steps, as far as I can tell from other posts, are these:

Bigun · Advocate Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 2196

As long as it passes the MD5 checksum. If it doesn't, it will let you know real quick.
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jusino · n00b Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 17 Location: Denver, CO

I followed the above steps, and apparently the package passed MD% with flying colors. It's emerging right now. After that, I'll try emerging the system again.

Thanks for the suggestions.
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