Openoffice uninstalls Firefox and Firefox uninstalls OOo :'(

[hermanschmidt]

Why can't they live together? hahahaha.


I've just installed the last version of Sabayon with Gnome. The first thing I did after it, was update Firefox 3.0.x to Firefox 3.5.2 using emerge.

When I did that, emerge uninstalled OpenOffice. So I've tried to install OpenOffice again, and when I typed "emerge -a openoffice" in terminal, it says that would uninstall Firefox :'(

How could I do to make Firefox and OpenOffice live together again in my computer?
Currently I have only Firefox 3.5.2 installed.

Cheers!!

[micia]

Could you post exactly the commands you are executing in order to emerge openoffice and
firefox?
(the initial output of the dependency calculation of emerge -a openoffice would be useful too)

I tried to emerge firefox from portage and it did nothing to uninstall openoffice (firefox version 3.5.2-r11)
Keep in mind that if you got troubles using portage you can always try equo.

If you used emerge before using equo run:

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equo database gentoosync


now proceed with the installation:

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equo install --ask mozilla-firefox openoffice


[hermanschmidt]

Thanks, Micia!!


Regards


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[micia]

if your problem is solved, please mark this thread as such, many users
could find it useful
(you should edit your first post and add [Solved] at the end of it)

It's great that it worked for you, did you use equo?

[Thev00d00]

Technical explination: The user was trying to emerge with the nsplugin use flag enabled, this adds a firefox dep of <3.1 which would have caused the block. The entropy version is built wih -nsplugin so this doesnt happen.