Ah. Got it. Don't know how I missed that. It's been a long day and I
must have missed that I didn't have 1.41.8 installed.
Thanks,
Dave.
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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')
>>>>
>
>
