> I wish to install: > net-ftp/proftpd > dev-land/php > gnome-extra/gnome-db > dev-db/postgresql > all ask for java-xml-pack to be downloaded from java.sun.com/xml Solution provided by Jared H.: There is a program called unzip which will unzip it. It can be found in portage category app-arch. According to the depends in jaxp-1.1.3.ebuild, you much have unzip merged before you can ebuild jaxp. If you're using emerge it will do this for you automatically. Now, as for getting jaxp to emerge correctly, you need to download the zip file from http://java.sun.com/xml/downloads/javaxmlpack.html The only one I could find here was java_xml_pack-winter01-dev.zip which appeared to work. You need to place this in /usr/portage/distfiles and rename it to java_xml_pack-fall01.zip (since that's what jaxp is looking for) OR you can edit jaxp-1.1.3.ebuild where it says: At=java_xml_pack-fall01.zip and make it say At=java_xml_pack-winter01-dev.zip Either one will work, then type emerge --pretend dev-java/jaxp (to see what it's going to do) then emerge dev-java/jaxp