OiOliverOi

So
it seems KDE is just broken
my internet is set up, its not my connection
i run emerge kde-meta (though ive tried other ones too) to get kde
it attempts to connect to
xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/data/util-macros-1.1.5.tar.bz2
to get the file
util-macros-1.1.5.tar.bz2
most unfortunately, i found out, by going to the website, that its not under data, but under util instead:
xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/util/util-macros-1.1.5.tar.bz2
emerge is being plain retarded and doesnt get it: error error error blah blah blah 404 not found
=(
is there any way to edit the link for this (btw xorg crashes on this too!)?
thanks
any help appreciated

sdimhoff

Manually download the file into

/usr/portage/distfiles

Then try to emerge just-that-package

Hopefully that works. If this approach does not work then maybe you could switch package mirrors and see if it is just a problem with that particular mirror's tree. (If this is happening to many packages you should file a bug report or at least hit up the gentoo forums where more of the devs may be listening. You should probably send a report to that mirror maintainer if you figure out that is the cause.)

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i92guboj

You can change the mirror in your /etc/make.conf, like this:

Of course, you should pick the ones you preffer, you have a list here:

Gentoo Linux -- Gentoo Linux Mirrors

You can also emerge mirrorselect and use that instead.

OiOliverOi

Thanks for all the help
using i92guboj's suggestion, i managed to get a bit farther
however, whichever mirror i choose asks me to manually download a file that it apparently cannot get.

Whats the download console command?
thanks

i92guboj

You can use wget. Note that there are some packages that cannot be downloaded this way, because of licensing issues and stuff like that. In some cases you have to go the site where the package belongs, accept some license or register yourself using some form, and then download the file and save it to $DISTDIR.

I don't know if that's the case, though.

OiOliverOi

Thank you!
However, i am now getting new beautiful errors (when running emerge kdebase-startkde):

ERROR: x11-libs/libXpm-3.5.7 failed

Call Stack:
ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
enviroment, line 2871: Called xrmodular_src_compile
enviroment, line 3606: Called x-modular_src_make
enviroment, line 3640: Called die

The specific snippet of code:
emake :: die "emake failed"
The die message:
emake failed

Anybody have any clue what its talking about?
This appears on about 12 out of 64......

i92guboj

The real error must be above that. Repeat and paste from like 20 or 30 lines before. The package that failed is libXpm, actually.

OiOliverOi

Never mind
i fixed it =)
the problem was that a library called libexpat.so.0 was missing
this seems to be a rather common problem, but can be fixed by using echo to copy libexpat.so.1 into libexpat.so.0
=)
Thanks for all the help

i92guboj

It *seems* to work, but it's not actually a fix.

The real fix is to erase that copy, and then use revdep-rebuild to recompile all your programs against the new libexpat. If you don't have revdep-rebuild, emerge gentoolkit to get it.

The problem with libexpat is that the lib name was changed. And it was changed for a reason: to force all the users to recompile against the new libexpart, because it's incompatible ABI-wise with the old version. So, if you just rename the lib with the new version, you are automatically breaking all the programs that use libexpat. They might seem to work, but expect trouble in the future if you continue using that *solution*.