gentoo: conflict when emerging kde

Moebius · 06-03-2004, 10:58 PM

Apparently since I have an AMD64 system, I had to set my CFLAGS to Os or O1. I don't know if that is connected to my problem or not, but when I try to emerge kde I get this. It said the virtual/x11 package conflicts with another package. So I did emerge -p kde and:

Code:

Calculating Dependancies ...done!
[blocks B    ] x11-base/xfree ("virtual/x11" from pkg x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0)
[blocks B    ] x11-base/xfree (from pkg x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0)
[blocks B    ] x11-base/xfree ("virtual/x11" from pkg x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0)
... etc, etc, etc

I tried changing to CFLAGS="O1" and I got the same conflict. I'm not sure how to deal with it.

Thanks for the help.

motub · 06-04-2004, 01:47 AM

You have discovered the blocked package. This basically means that one package cannot be installed because you already have a conflicting package installed. Use the -pv switch (instead of just -p) to see more details.

In the case of XFree86, the conflicting program is xorg. In my experience, this can be solved by removing the conflicting packages beforehand, but I was doing this with much less important packages than my X server.

But according to Gentoo, this is the correct solution. From Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Portage and Software:

Quote:

Blocked Packages

You have a situation when you receive the following error on your screen:

Code Listing 36: Blocking package

[blocks B ] gnome-base/bonobo-activation (from pkg gnome-base/libbonobo-2.4.0)

In the above example, the package bonobo-activation is blocking the emerge of libbonobo. To resolve this issue, remove the bonobo-activation package and continue:

Code Listing 37: Resolving a blocking situation

# emerge unmerge bonobo-activation

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Dunno why you've changed X servers, but KDE wants the old one back (not sure why it cares, though). You're pretty much stuck. Have a look at the ebuild (it should be in /usr/portage/kde-base/kde/ ) and see what the depends are. Head over to http://bugs.gentoo.org and type kde into the search box to see if there are any bugs related to this ebuild. Do an emerge sync; maybe this package has been removed from portage, or adjusted, but you're using an old ebuild.

Or just remove xorg and install XFree86. Your choice.

Hope this helps.