emerge - !!! "Specific key requires an operator

spud.pudd · n00b Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Plymouth UK

Hi,

I'm new to Gentoo, I have installed using stage3 (appears AOK), I also downloaded the packages iso which I have extracted to '/usr/portage/packages' using Kiso......

So far all emerge commands have been executed without options AOK - but the KDE-base build took over 24 hrs to complete on my PC - Athlon 1100.

I thought I would emerge openoffice as a binary install (for a faster install) but emerge reports as follows:-

# emerge openoffice-bin-1.1.4 -K
Calculating dependencies

!!! Problem in app-office/openoffice-bin-1.1.4 dependencies.
!!! "Specific key requires an operator (app-office/openoffice-bin-1.1.4) (try adding an '=')" exceptions.

What does this mean & how can I resolve....?

Many thanks

spud.pudd

hw-tph · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:02 am Post subject:

You're specifying what version you want. You shouldn't have to do this, so simply try emerge openoffice-bin -K. If it tries to emerge another version (other than the package you have) you can specify the exact version like this: emerge "=openoffice-bin-1.1.4" -K.

Håkan

spud.pudd · n00b Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Plymouth UK

Hakan,

It worked - many thanks

spud.pudd

Earthwings · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 3:12 pm Post subject:

Moved to dups, see https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=136184