Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Package installation

[Jeremy Huddleston <jeremy@outersquare.org>]

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if youu want to install a specific version, youu can do (for example):

emerge -v '=media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r1'

or

emerge -v \=media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r1

Note that becasue of the =, you need to escape it or put it in single
quotes.

--Jeremy

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 12:12, David Renström wrote:
> Hi again!
> 
> I've got another question: How do you install a package whose name contains 
> dashes (-), e.g. realplayer8-r7? Or links-2 for that matter. I always get 
> an error saying something about a key and that I should probably add an 
> equal sign. I guess I'm missing something fundamental here, so please tell 
> me how to get around this. It's very annoying! :-) And speaking of 
> annoying, I'm sorry for asking about alot of stuff that strictly doesn't 
> have anything to do with accessibility, but the list doesn't seem to be 
> overloaded for the moment anyway.
> 
> Regards,
> /David R.
> 
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