Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

[ralfconn <mentadent47@yahoo.com>]

Il 03/03/24 10:47, Wols Lists ha scritto:
> I'm getting this output from
>
> emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world
>
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>  * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
>  * the following required packages not being installed:
>  *
>  *   >=dev-libs/icu-73.1:0/73.1= pulled in by:
>  *     www-client/firefox-115.6.0
>  *
>  * Have you forgotten to do a complete update prior to depclean? The
>  * most comprehensive command for this purpose is as follows:
>  *
>  *   emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world
>  *
>  * Note that the --with-bdeps=y option is not required in many
>  * situations. Refer to the emerge manual page (run `man emerge`)
>  * for more information about --with-bdeps.
>  *
>  * Also, note that it may be necessary to manually uninstall
>  * packages that no longer exist in the repository, since it may not
>  * be possible to satisfy their dependencies.
> thewolery /usr/local/bin #
>
> icu is at 74.2
>
> firefox failed to update ...
>
> *  www-client/firefox
>       Latest version available: 115.8.0
>       Latest version installed: 115.6.0
>       Size of files: 496,244 KiB
>       Homepage:      https://www.mozilla.com/firefox
>       Description:   Firefox Web Browser
>       License:       MPL-2.0 GPL-2 LGPL-2.1
>
> as did thunderbird ...
>
> *  mail-client/thunderbird
>       Latest version available: 115.8.0
>       Latest version installed: 115.6.0
>       Size of files: 528,920 KiB
>       Homepage:      https://www.thunderbird.net/
>       Description:   Thunderbird Mail Client
>       License:       MPL-2.0 GPL-2 LGPL-2.1
>
> Andy ideas? Or is the mozilla emerge stuff slightly broken on my 
> system? I've been having trouble with those two for the last few weeks 
> ...
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
Here I see:

[I] www-client/firefox
      Available versions:
      (esr)  115.7.0 115.8.0
      (rapid) (~)122.0.1 (~)123.0

You have 115.6.0 installed which apparently is out of tree. That may be 
confusing emerge. You could try to un-merge firefox, depclean and 
re-emerge it.

raf