Look at the output again. You don't need an earlier version of e2fsprogs-libs,
you need the very version that is the blocker.
But, to install KDE, portage wants to build util-linux first and it can't do
that because you have an incompatible version of e2fsprogs-libs already
installed. So like I said earlier,what you need to be is *first* give it a
version of e2fsprogs-libs, then remerge kde whereupon you will likely find
that util-linux no longer complains (as it likely finds a version of
e2fsprogs-libs that it is happy with)
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 10:37:51 Dave Oxley wrote:
> I'd already looked for a later version of e2fsprogs-libs but there isn't
> one. Any other ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 09:28:30 Dave Oxley wrote:
> >> I'm trying to emerge kde-4.3 but get the following block that I've been
> >> unable to resolve. Anyone have any ideas?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Dave.
> >>
> >> [blocks B ] <sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.8
> >> ("<sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.8" is blocking sys-apps/util-linux-2.16)
> >
> > portage wants to install latest util-linux but can't as you have an old
> > e2fsprogs-libs in the way. Solution is to upgrade the blocker first then
> > re- run the original emerge:
> >
> > emerge -av1 e2fsprogs-libs
> > emerge kde
> >
> >> ('installed', '/', 'sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3-r1', 'nomerge')
> >> pulled in by
> >>
> >> >=sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.0 required by ('installed', '/',
> >>
> >> 'app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.6.3-r6', 'nomerge')
> >>
> >> >=sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41 required by ('installed', '/',
> >>
> >> 'sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.6-r2', 'nomerge')
> >> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs required by ('installed', '/',
> >> 'x11-libs/libSM-1.1.0', 'nomerge')
> >>
> >> ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-apps/util-linux-2.16', 'merge') pulled in by
> >>
> >> >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.13 required by ('ebuild', '/',
> >>
> >> 'sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5', 'merge')
> >> sys-apps/util-linux required by ('installed', '/',
> >> 'app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.4', 'nomerge')
> >>
> >> >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.16 required by ('ebuild', '/',
> >>
> >> 'sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2', 'merge')
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