When running gnuplot on my script I have this error : gnuplot trajectories.gpl "trajectories.gpl", line 5: /usr/share/gnuplot/5.2/lua/gnuplot-tikz.lua:1759: bad argument #1 to 'load' (function expected, got string) stack traceb I tried to install lua5.2.3 instead but lua 5.1 is a dependency of gnuplot so I have blocked package. emerge -avDuN =dev-lang/lua-5.2.3 * IMPORTANT: 10 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news read to view new items. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N #] app-eselect/eselect-lua-1::gentoo 0 KiB [ebuild NS #] dev-lang/lua-5.2.3:5.2::gentoo [5.1.5-r4:0::gentoo] USE="deprecated readline -emacs -static" 246 KiB [blocks B ] dev-lang/lua:0 ("dev-lang/lua:0" is blocking dev-lang/lua-5.2.3) Total: 2 packages (1 new, 1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 246 KiB Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r4:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by dev-lang/lua:0 required by (sci-visualization/gnuplot-5.2.2:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-lang/lua-5.1:= required by (dev-lua/lpeg-1.0.1:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-lang/lua-5.1:0/0= required by (dev-lua/lpeg-1.0.1:0/0::gentoo, installed) (dev-lang/lua-5.2.3:5.2/5.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by >=dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r2[deprecated,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?] (>=dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r2[deprecated,abi_x86_64(-)]) required by (dev-lua/luaexpat-1.3.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r3[deprecated,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?] (>=dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r3[deprecated,abi_x86_64(-)]) required by (media-libs/libquvi-0.9.4-r1:0/8::gentoo, installed) >=dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r2:*[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?] (>=dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r2:*[abi_x86_64(-)]) required by (dev-lua/LuaBitOp-1.0.2-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) =dev-lang/lua-5.2.3 >=dev-lang/lua-5.1 required by (dev-lua/luajson-1.3.3:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r2[deprecated,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?] (>=dev-lang/lua-5.1.5-r2[deprecated,abi_x86_64(-)]) required by (dev-lua/luasocket-3.0_rc1-r3:0/0::gentoo, installed) For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Portage#Blocked_packages The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.unmask" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by =dev-lang/lua-5.2.3 (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Matti Bickel <mabi@gentoo.org> (22 Apr 2014) # Masked slotted lua for testing # William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> (07 Aug 2016) # Taking this mask since Mabi is retired # Rafael Martins <rafaelmartins@gentoo.org> (04 Dec 2016) # Adding Lua 5.3 to mask =dev-lang/lua-5.2.3 # required by dev-lang/lua-5.2.3::gentoo # required by =dev-lang/lua-5.2.3 (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Matti Bickel <mabi@gentoo.org> (22 Apr 2014) # Masked slotted lua for testing # William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> (07 Aug 2016) # Taking this mask since Mabi is retired # Rafael Martins <rafaelmartins@gentoo.org> (04 Dec 2016) # Adding Lua 5.3 to mask =app-eselect/eselect-lua-1 NOTE: The --autounmask-keep-masks option will prevent emerge from creating package.unmask or ** keyword changes. Would you like to add these changes to your config files? [Yes/No] No * In order to avoid wasting time, backtracking has terminated early * due to the above autounmask change(s). The --autounmask-backtrack=y * option can be used to force further backtracking, but there is no * guarantee that it will produce a solution. This is the version of gnuplot I'm emerging ~ # emerge -av gnuplot * IMPORTANT: 10 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news read to view new items. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sci-visualization/gnuplot-5.2.2::gentoo USE="X cairo gd latex lua qt5 readline wxwidgets (-aqua) -bitmap -compat -doc -examples -ggi -libcaca -libcerf (-svga)" 0 KiB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB emerge --info Portage 2.3.15 (python 3.4.6-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd, gcc-6.4.0, glibc-2.26-r3, 4.12.12-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.12.12-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-5200U_CPU_@_2.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.4.1 KiB Mem: 8035992 total, 3070804 free KiB Swap: 8371196 total, 8371196 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 11:00:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 87436a546204cd84761ac86ef8843937bab5bd2c Head commit of repository ros-overlay: 137e5d27fda07dffbf2b78b41208e4a79ab1e5cc sh bash 4.4_p12 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.28.1 p1.0) 2.28.1 app-shells/bash: 4.4_p12::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.26.1-r1::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.14-r1::gentoo, 3.4.6-r1::gentoo, 3.6.3-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.9.6::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.4.1-r2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.34.9::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.12::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.15.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.28.1::gentoo, 2.29.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 5.4.0-r3::gentoo, 6.4.0::gentoo, 7.2.0::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.9.0::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r4::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.13::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.26-r3::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 sync-rsync-extra-opts: ros-overlay location: /home/malcolm/external_source/ros-overlay sync-type: git sync-uri: git@github.com:ros/ros-overlay.git masters: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/chromium/policies/managed/chrome-gnome-shell.json /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/chrome-gnome-shell.json /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync multilib-strict news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ http://gentoo.modulix.net/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gentoo.mirrors.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirrors.soeasyto.com/distfiles.gentoo.org/ http://mirrors.soeasyto.com/distfiles.gentoo.org/ http://mirror.mdfnet.se/gentoo ftp://mirror.mdfnet.se/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli client colord cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds egl emboss encode evo exif fam firefox flac fontconfig 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cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 f16c fma3 mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" 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Thank you for the report. Please *attach* the logfiles, https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bugzilla/Bug_report_guide#Report_a_build-time_bug_.28emerge_failed.29 Please add the correct version number in the title. Did you try sci-visualization/gnuplot-5.2.2? and reopen this ticket (Status:unconfirmed). Btw: I can not see a dependency on a special Lua version. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sci-visualization/gnuplot/gnuplot-5.2.2.ebuild It is likely, that you just need to fix blocking packages on your system. We can not help you efficiently via bug tracker. The bug tracker aims rather on specific problems in .ebuilds and less on individual systems. I have had very good experience on the gentoo IRC [1] with questions like this. Of course there are also forums and mailing lists [2,3]. I hope you understand, that I will close the bug here therefore and wish you good luck on one of the mentioned channels [4]. Please reopen the ticket in order to provide an indication for an specific error in an ebuild or any gentoo related product. [1] https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/irc-channels/ [2] https://forums.gentoo.org/ [3] https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/mailing-lists/all-lists.html [4] https://www.gentoo.org/support/
Sorry for the very late answer. I understand and will go search for answers on those channels if I encounter that problem again. I for now solved it by using an older version of gnuplot :). I had to say thanks for: 1) telling how to improve the bug report, 2) directing me toward the good places to ask for help on this. This is the best most informative answer I had on a not-so-useful bug report I submitted :)
