Re: [gentoo-user] Can't Emerge jbig2dec-0.11-r1

[Willie Matthews <matthews.willie80@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Willie Matthews 
<matthews.willie80@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Sunday 06 Apr 2014 17:35:06 Willie Matthews wrote:
>>>  On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>  > On Sunday 06 Apr 2014 00:14:52 Willie Matthews wrote:
>>>  >>  I have been trying to emerge jibeg2dec-0.11-r1 for months now.
>>>  >> 
>>>  >> Anytime
>>>  >> 
>>>  >>  I need to do an system update I have to upgrade everything 
>>> else by
>>>  >>  running "emerge -av1" with all the package names that are in 
>>> the
>>>  >> 
>>>  >> list
>>>  >> 
>>>  >>  that needs to be upgraded.
>>>  >>  
>>>  >>  This is the output when I run "emerge -av1 jbig2dec"
>>>  >>  http://pastebin.com/dxBXLZtS
>>>  >>  
>>>  >>  This is the output of
>>>  >>  "/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/jbig2dec-0.11-r1/temp/aclocal.out"
>>>  >>  http://pastebin.com/gNecjMzd
>>>  >>  
>>>  >>  Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>>  >>  Willie Matthews
>>>  > 
>>>  > It complains about aclocal:
>>>  > ==========================
>>>  > 
>>>  >  * Running aclocal ...
>>>  > 
>>>  > [ !! ]
>>>  > 
>>>  >  * Failed Running aclocal !
>>>  > 
>>>  > ==========================
>>>  > 
>>>  > So you may want to remerge sys-devel/automake-wrapper as a first 
>>> step?
>>>  > 
>>>  >   emerge -1aDv sys-devel/automake-wrapper
>>>  > 
>>>  > Then try to emerge --update world.
>>>  
>>>  Oh my god. Thank you for your help. I have been struggling with 
>>> this
>>>  for a long time. I tried to reinstall so many other things that I
>>>  thought had to do with the problem. Never did I once think to 
>>> reinstall
>>>  the wrapper itself.
>>>  
>>>  Thanks again for your help
>>>  Willie Matthews
>> 
>> You're welcome.  Instead of re-installing packages blind, here's an 
>> idea to 
>> point you to the package that the offending file belongs to and 
>> start from re-
>> installing that.  You can use equery or qfile to guide you:
>> 
>> $ which aclocal
>> /usr/bin/aclocal
>> 
>> $ qfile belongs /usr/bin/aclocal
>> sys-devel/automake-wrapper (/usr/bin/aclocal)
>> 
>> which points at sys-devel/automake-wrapper
>> 
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> Mick
> 
> I will make sure I try that next time I run into a problem like this.
> 
> Thanks for the tip,
> Willie Matthews

After two days I finally have my computer completely updated. I 
appreciate you help Mick.

Thanks again,
Willie Matthews

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