emerge libpng fails.

jakobdo · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Posts: 3

Hello,
i try to install libpng, but get the following error:

server1 libpng # emerge libpng
Calculating dependencies... done!

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) media-libs/libpng-1.2.12-r1 to /
* libpng-1.2.12.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-)

... [ ok ]
* libpng-1.2.12.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-)

... [ ok ]
* libpng-1.2.12.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-)

... [ ok ]
* libpng-1.2.12.tar.bz2 SHA256 ;-)

... [ ok ]
* libpng-1.2.12.tar.bz2 size ;-)

... [ ok ]
>>> Downloading 'http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng-manual.txt'
--11:09:38-- http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng-manual.txt
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/libpng-manual.txt'
Resolving www.libpng.org... 66.35.250.210
Connecting to www.libpng.org|66.35.250.210|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
11:09:39 ERROR 404: Not Found.

!!! Couldn't download 'libpng-manual.txt'. Aborting.

How can i Solve this?
I have tried to do: emerge rsync and emerge sync, did not solved the problem.

jaguarondi · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2004 Posts: 13 Location: Belgium

I get the same problem.

jakobdo · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Posts: 3

I think the problem is the libpng server has some problems.

See: http://www.libpng.org/ (no answers)

vonr · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:49 am Post subject:

It seems to be down indeed.

As a temporary workaround, you could try emerging it with the "doc" flag unset, as the ebuild seems to only pull in that file with the flag set:

jakobdo · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Posts: 3

Thanks, looks like it solved the problem.

USE="-doc" emerge libpng

spindle · Apprentice Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 239

I have this issue too. It seems to pull the file properly from the url. I think probably that the digest is wrong because this file was updated on January 5, 2007 for version 1.2.15 if you look at it

a quick fix,

MadCoder42 · Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject:

That worked for me - thanks.

It's confusing to see the download happen successfully and then get the message that it was unable to download the file.

spindle · Apprentice Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 239

Yes it is confusing. I think the error message was more explicit at one time, not sure. I added a note about this to this bug.

Narnach · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:22 am Post subject:

Thanks for the ebuild info, fixed the problem for me.

Kinda sloppy from upstream that they don't version that file and just update it in a newer version - instead of breaking hash checking for us users by changing the file directly...
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