Re: [gentoo-desktop] Trying to install gnucash - g-wrap failure

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On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:19 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Friday 23 February 2007, mail <lists@×××××.net> wrote about 'Re:
> [gentoo-desktop] Trying to install gnucash - g-wrap failure':
> > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:18 -0500, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 16:01 -0500, mail wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 16:06 +0100, Christoph Nodes wrote:
> > > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166374
> > > >
> > > > OK, thats Great.
> > > > In the mean time, it is almost tax season. Is there a simple way to
> > > > emerge a working version for now?
> > >
> > > The easiest solution is to emerge the
> > > ~arch g-wrap, which uses glib 2.x and works fine.
> >
> > I'n not too familiar with emerging things like that. How do I emerge a
> > ~arch g-wrap? do I put something special in /etc/portage/package.use ?
>
> Well, you should have read the relevant documentation toward the end of
> your Gentoo install; I believe the section of the handbook is "Using
> Portage".
>
> Assuming g-wrap is the only package that needs an ~arch version, something
> like:
>
> echo 'dev-libs/g-wrap' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
>
> and then a standard emerge of gnucash should work.  However, this might
> about with a "masked by missing keyword" error on some other package,
> which indicates you'll need the ~ARCH version of that package as well.
> Repeat the above procedure until you get all the ~ARCH versions you need.
> Keep in mind that ~ARCH packages are "testing" and may be as stable as the
> standard (ARCH) packages.
>
> I strongly encourage you to read the relevant documentation, since the
> instructions I've provided above will cause emerge to consistently want to
> upgrade g-wrap (and any other ~ARCH packages you need) to the latest ~ARCH
> version, which may or may not be what you want.  In particular, you may
> want to so with a version-limited atom, like '~dev-libs/g-wrap-1.9.6'
> instead of the "raw" atom 'dev-libs/g-wrap'.
>
> Relevant documentation includes sections of the Gentoo Handbook as well has
> the portage(5), make.conf(5), emerge(1), and ebuild(1) man pages.
>

Thanks,
I really do appreciate every bit of advice! Thanks again for everybody
trying to help here. However, I still have no way of emerging gnucash.
The way is still hidden from me. I have tried everything I can think of
and every suggestion that I have found. I'm sure it will happen sooner
or later. I would just hope it would be easy as portage should be. Is
gnucash is dead Like xmms? 



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