Rookie mistake installing Java in XFCE4

RexAtHighSpeed · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Charlotte, NC

I was about to install Sun Java and I needed to add a line in /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords so that the package would install ok. I thought I was going to be cool and do it all from the command line (with echo "yadda yadda" > /path/to/file). Before I ran the command I opened up the file package.accept_keywords file and saw there were two entries in there (but did not pay attention to what they were). I executed the command and then opened up the file again to see that there was only one line in there and the previous lined were gone! I suppose that since I only used > instead of >> that it overwrote the lines instead of adding to them.

Help!

I don't know what those two lines were for or how they will affect me down the road but I am sure I will pay dearly if I can't figure out what they were. Is there any way to find out what the lines were or what they need to be?

~Thanks

i92guboj · Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:16 pm Post subject:

Um... the only thing I can think of...

If your system was up to date, then, before the cataclysm this command should have not reported anything

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:25 pm Post subject:

RexAtHighSpeed,

nano++

By up to date, i92guboj means only that the install you have matches the tree you have and that there are no packages left to update.
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i92guboj · Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 9:41 pm Post subject:

Yes, but if there are pending upgrades they usually won't harm much. As said above, the downgrades if the pretend list will be far more informative.

RexAtHighSpeed · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Charlotte, NC

It's a pretty fresh install so it will probably be relatively simple.

Thanks for the help!