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emerge complains about blocked packages: what do I do?

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Mar 15, 20266492 views
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We have an old development server running Gentoo at work. I would like to update this system, but I keep running into problems with the packaging system. To me, it seems like there are dependencies on several versions of various packages, and I cannot see how to fix it. The biggest problem is proba…

Error Output

(lots of normal output ....)
[ebuild     U ] app-misc/mc-4.7.0.3 [4.6.1-r4] USE="edit%* -slang*" 
....
[blocks B     ] >=dev-lang/python-2.6.6 (">=de…

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Fix for: emerge complains about blocked packages: what do I do?

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I faced the same problem just a few days ago. I have no exact way how to do it, but here is the generic way: First have a look at . Make a backup and strip down the packages to the ones neede by your system to boot up. Here's some content to get you…

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