cant update my system because of googleearth [solved]

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m_0_r_0_n · Post by **m_0_r_0_n** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:39 pm

Hi
I started a system update by emerge --sync && emerge -uDNvat world, but the update process stops each time it tries to unpack? the googleearth bin file.

localhost distfiles # emerge --resume
*** Resuming merge...

>>> Emerging (1 of

x11-misc/googleearth-4_beta to /
>>> Resuming download...
>>> Downloading 'http://dl.google.com/earth/GE4/GoogleEarthLinux.bin'
--00:26:48-- http://dl.google.com/earth/GE4/GoogleEarthLinux.bin
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/GoogleEarthLinux.bin'
Resolving dl.google.com... 72.14.221.91, 72.14.221.93, 72.14.221.95
Connecting to dl.google.com|72.14.221.91|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable

The file is already fully retrieved; nothing to do.

!!! Couldn't download 'GoogleEarthLinux.bin'. Aborting.

The file really exists
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 21607720 Jan 10 00:24 GoogleEarthLinux.bin

Any idea how to solve this problem?

coolsnowmen · Post by **coolsnowmen** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:59 pm

sounds silly...

I'ld remove the file and watch it try to download the file again...

sotn3m · Post by **sotn3m** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:11 pm

I have the same problem.

I delete the file and remerging still fails.
I downloaded the file by wget and copied to distfiles -> fails.

Any clues?

coolsnowmen · Post by **coolsnowmen** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:14 pm

perhaps the file has changed, if you trust it, you could update the manifest with ebuild

edit, I tried that, it works,,,needs to be fixed up stream but for now you can do (after it finishes the file)

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ebuild /usr/portage/x11-misc/googleearth/googleearth-4_beta.ebuild manifest

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:15 pm

Do you want googleearth installed? Or are you just trying to get past the issue?
If you don't want it or don't care then

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echo x11-misc/googleearth >> /etc/portage/package.mask

or delete x11-misc/googleearth from /etc/portage/package.keywords if you put it there.

If you do want it installed then copy and paste this...

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ebuild /usr/portage/x11-misc/googleearth/googleearth-4_beta.ebuild digest && emerge googleearth

sotn3m · Post by **sotn3m** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:36 pm

thx. It's working:)

It's probably because google don't want to version their programs on download pages...

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:30 pm

please add [Solved] to the original post topic ..

Post by **Voyageur** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:14 pm

Indeed, sotn3m, it's because they do not version the files, and also forbid to mirror them

So it's ebuild-digesting/fixing at every upstream bump...