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yaami
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 Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 10:23 pm Post subject: installing kde-meta |
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Hi all,
I installed Gentoo Linux (first successful install). The base system installed without any problem. Then I tried to install the kde-meta (emerge kde-meta). but there was this problem involving cups install (complained about not having the pdftops program). So I searched online found that this was fixed in 1.4.2 and above but I can not figure out how to make emerge install this version it installs the older 1.3.11-r1.....
And is it OK if I just emerge kde-meta if I fix this cups problem. Does it do the installation from the beginning again. |
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Hu
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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If emerge is selecting =net-print/cups-1.3.11-r1, then your Portage tree is out of date. That has been removed from the tree. You should sync your tree and try again.
As implied by its name, kde-base/kde-meta is a meta package. It does not install anything, but its dependencies cause many other things to be installed. Any packages that you have successfully installed will not be rebuilt as a result of running emerge kde-base/kde-meta. |
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yaami
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reply. So after I sync is again
I'm thinking of first purging the previous install of kde-meta using
| Code: | emerge --update --deep --newuse world
# emerge --depclean
# revdep-rebuild
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and do again. Does this sound OK.
Edit: I did , and now when I try to install cups it tries to install 1.3.11.r3 and complains about the same problem (pdf2ps not found) How do I fix this. How can I install 1.4.4 instead (unmask, howto?)
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idella4
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| Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 11:19 am Post subject: |
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yaami,
well, yes, but that's very heavy handed. Start with emerge -pv kde-meta; or emerge -uDN kde-meta.
This may reveal blockages that need clearing, which may require
emerge -C kde-meta:[old-version] && emerge -DN kde-meta
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icarus127
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| Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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I had this problem when installing wicd (also my first Gentoo install  ) with cups wanting pdftops. I was able to find some references to cups dependencies being broken pre 2009 with one or two more recent posts about similar problems.
My solution was to put "-cups" in my use flags in make.conf since I won't be needing it but an alternative might be to install whatever provides the dependencies the build is complaining about. In the posts I saw that might be either the xpdf package or one of the poppler packages. |
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