Vicious circle b/w python-updater and openoffice [SOLVED]

audiodef · Last edited by audiodef on Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:36 pm; edited 3 times in total

Yet another circular hoo-ha...

I haven't done a world update on this laptop for a while. As often happens, if you wait too long between world updates, weird shit happens. This time, it couldn't run java-config. Normally, I can fix that with python-updater, but running python-updater ends with:

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

The very annoying way, that I think may work,
would be: add '-p', look at the list and 'emerge -1'
in the order given.

Hagar · Guru Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 445

You lost me at "This time, it couldn't run java-config. Normally, I can fix that with python-updater".
How does python-updater relate to java-config?

If by "could not run" you meant you did not have java-config installed you can solve that by emerging dev-java/java-config
If you meant it failed in some other way I suggest you post the error message instead.

poly_poly-man · Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:14 pm Post subject:

I'm hitting this as well, but with some old kde-4.1 junk no longer in the tree.

Hagar: the reason python-updater fixes java-config is because java-config is python.
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Hagar · Guru Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 445

I just noticed it myself, java-config fails because the code is only available in python 2.5 which is no longer the default version.

I'm not sure how to fix you're dependency problem with openoffice, but remerging java-config manually will fix java-config.
$ emerge --oneshot java-config

audiodef · Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:34 pm Post subject:

Thanks, everyone. emerge -1 java-config got that out of the way.
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