Error updating

Comatose51 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 103

bash-2.05b# emerge world
Calculating world dependencies ...done!

!!! Error: the <dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 package conflicts with this package and both can't be installed on the same system together.

What does that mean? Prior to that I did a emerge portage because emerge sync told me that a new version of portage was available. Did I screw something up?

Thanks.

Comatose51 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 103

I went ahead and removed the package and then tried to emerge it again but now I get this error instead:

bash-2.05b# emerge dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker
Calculating dependencies ...done!

!!! Error: the <dev-perl/File-Spec-0.84-r1 package conflicts with this package and both can't be installed on the same system together.

I don't even have that installed I think. I do emerge -S File-Spec-0.84-r1 and it comes up with nothing.

pYrania · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 8:36 pm Post subject:

The following packages need to be removed completely, if installed:

* ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6
* File-Spec-0.84-r1
* Test-Simple-0.47-r1

(with emerge -C)

afterwards you will be able to compile/update perl resp. world
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hooligan · n00b Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Posts: 48

I was getting the same issue, however, I did a search on each package and found what it's ebuild name is (my version numbers were not the same as those posted above...). Unmerged these, and I was able to update...

edit: stupidity is contagious... I had the same issue and forgot to search on each package... thought that those packs weren't installed.
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Comatose51 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 103

hooligan, can you explain that to me? I'm having problem searching for them. This is what I get:

bash-2.05b# emerge -C File-Spec-0.84.r1

!!! Couldn't find match for File-Spec-0.84.r1

>>> unmerge: No packages selected for removal.

bash-2.05b# emerge -C Test-Simple-0.47.r1

!!! Couldn't find match for Test-Simple-0.47.r1

>>> unmerge: No packages selected for removal.

How do I find their ebuild?

Neverminded... I'm an idiot. Thanks for the help.

pYrania · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 9:35 pm Post subject:

DON'T include the version of the package in the unmerge command. you don't do it when installing either, do you?

just do