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On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:19 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> On Friday 23 February 2007, mail <lists@×××××.net> wrote about 'Re: |
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> [gentoo-desktop] Trying to install gnucash - g-wrap failure': |
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> > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:18 -0500, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: |
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> > > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:01 -0500, mail wrote: |
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> > > > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 16:06 +0100, Christoph Nodes wrote: |
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> > > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166374 |
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> > > > |
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> > > > OK, thats Great. |
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> > > > In the mean time, it is almost tax season. Is there a simple way to |
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> > > > emerge a working version for now? |
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> > > |
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> > > The easiest solution is to emerge the |
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> > > ~arch g-wrap, which uses glib 2.x and works fine. |
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> > I'n not too familiar with emerging things like that. How do I emerge a |
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> > ~arch g-wrap? do I put something special in /etc/portage/package.use ? |
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> Well, you should have read the relevant documentation toward the end of |
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> your Gentoo install; I believe the section of the handbook is "Using |
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> Portage". |
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> Assuming g-wrap is the only package that needs an ~arch version, something |
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> like: |
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> echo 'dev-libs/g-wrap' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords |
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> and then a standard emerge of gnucash should work. However, this might |
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> about with a "masked by missing keyword" error on some other package, |
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> which indicates you'll need the ~ARCH version of that package as well. |
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> Repeat the above procedure until you get all the ~ARCH versions you need. |
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> Keep in mind that ~ARCH packages are "testing" and may be as stable as the |
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> standard (ARCH) packages. |
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> I strongly encourage you to read the relevant documentation, since the |
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> instructions I've provided above will cause emerge to consistently want to |
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> upgrade g-wrap (and any other ~ARCH packages you need) to the latest ~ARCH |
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> version, which may or may not be what you want. In particular, you may |
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> want to so with a version-limited atom, like '~dev-libs/g-wrap-1.9.6' |
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> instead of the "raw" atom 'dev-libs/g-wrap'. |
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> Relevant documentation includes sections of the Gentoo Handbook as well has |
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> the portage(5), make.conf(5), emerge(1), and ebuild(1) man pages. |
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Thanks, |
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I really do appreciate every bit of advice! Thanks again for everybody |
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trying to help here. However, I still have no way of emerging gnucash. |
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The way is still hidden from me. I have tried everything I can think of |
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and every suggestion that I have found. I'm sure it will happen sooner |
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or later. I would just hope it would be easy as portage should be. Is |
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gnucash is dead Like xmms? |
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