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   Wim Cossement to Anthony.Youngman@ECA-International.   
   Re: Firefox won't emerge ...   
   21 Jun 07 10:36:34   
   
   From: a@b.c   
      
   Anthony.Youngman@ECA-International.com wrote:   
   > On Jun 20, 5:34 pm, "Nuno J. Silva"  wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:51:11 -0700   
   >>   
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   >> Anthony.Young...@ECA-International.com wrote:   
   >>> How do I manage to get a successful emerge?   
   >>> It bombs because of a missing XML::Parser, which seems to be a known   
   >>> problem - when I created a bug-report it was closed within minutes as   
   >>> a duplicate of a much earlier bug. That's all very well, but not much   
   >>> help to me when the problem has clearly been there for weeks - I did   
   >>> a   
   >>> emerge --sync   
   >>> emerge mozilla-firefox   
   >>> twice about a week apart and both failed ...   
   >>> btw, I use KDE, and have -gnome (or whatever it is) in my use flags -   
   >>> the earlier bug was something to do with gnome.   
   >>> Cheers,   
   >>> Wol   
   >> Just a shoot in the dark, try to re-emerge dev-perl/XML-Parser. If that   
   >> doesn't work, run the commands Wim gave you.   
   >>   
   > I can't re-emerge something I hadn't emerged :-) Seriously, why should   
   > I need to emerge something that ought to be a dependency?   
   >   
   > Anyways, done that, and it now fails with "no error message" !!!   
   >   
   > Can anyone recommend a decent browser other than firefox or konq?   
      
   Opera is very good too, but it's a binary release...   
      
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