cant emerge kopete somethings bloking

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Fede93
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cant emerge kopete somethings bloking

Post by Fede93 »

I downloaded the last version of kopete, I unpacked the tar and then I emerged kopete in terminal but it says somethings blocking I did emerge --pretend kopete and it told me wat is blocking. wat do i do now?
orochi
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Post by orochi »

if you used emerge as it should, you should not have needed to download any files (tar or otherwhise)

typically you would run


emerge -C <package name to remove>


and get rid of the blocking package and reemerge kopete


i suggest you checkout the gentoo handbook at http://www.gentoo.org
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