Re: [gentoo-user] binary package installation problem

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:27:40 +0000, askar k wrote:

> When I do #emerge --usepkg <packagename> - sometimes it works, but
> sometimes it doesn't work and bedins compiling.
> For example, I wanted to install kde from package CD but it goes to
> compiling, though I see a lot of tbz files for kde.
> Can anybody tell what do I do wrong?

Because you have emerge sync'd since the packages CD was built, your
portage tree contains newer versions of many of the packages, so emerge
tries to install those. As there is no package available for the newer
versions, it tries to download the source and compile.

You need to use --usepkgonly (-K), --usepkg (-k) means "use a package if
one is available, otherwise build from source. If that doesn't work, use
specific version numbers to ensure the version on the CD is installed

emerge -Kav =cate-gory/package-x.y.z-rN


-- 
Neil Bothwick

I am neither for nor against apathy.

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