Posts Tagged ‘emerge’

Gentoo blocker: AdobeFlash-10.1 license

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Lately, my Adobe Flash on Gentoo amd64 complained about being blocked by the Adobe Flash 10.0 license and since yesterday the 10.1 one. Blocked by a license? Had never seen that before…
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This week’s blockers: perl-core/Compress-Zlib and perl-core/IO-Compress-Zlib

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Less than a week after my previous post on blockers caused by poppler, perl-core/Compress-Zlib and perl-core/IO-Compress-Zlib pop up as blockers in my emerge -uDN world.
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emerge -u world causes poppler blocks

Monday, June 15th, 2009

When updating world, as we should all do every now and then, yesterday I was confronted with a number of different blocks relating to poppler. Usually I find it easiest to unmerge a blocking package by hand and see if the dependency conflict resolves itself. This time that wasn’t quite what I needed.
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Scanning for Conficker using Nmap under Gentoo Linux

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Well, that was what I wanted. I know, Conficker was hot months ago. But hey, I’m not often around Windows machines and I thought that while I was, I might just as well scan my parents’s network.
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