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On 08/12/2016 22:41, Bertram Scharpf wrote: |
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> On Thursday, 08. Dec 2016, 17:35:59 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On 08/12/2016 14:36, Bertram Scharpf wrote: |
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>>> On Thursday, 08. Dec 2016, 00:21:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>>> On 08/12/2016 00:01, Bertram Scharpf wrote: |
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>>>>> arrgh! I just want to find a quick-start tutorial for |
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>>>>> Virtualbox on Gentoo, but Google shows up loads of tutorials |
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>>>>> for Gentoo in a Virtualbox. |
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>>> The official documentation <https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#idm267> |
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>>> says: |
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>>> |
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>>> On a Linux or Solaris host, depending on your desktop |
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>>> environment, a "VirtualBox" item may have been placed in |
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>>> either the "System" or "System Tools" group of your |
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>>> "Applications" menu. Alternatively, you can type |
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>>> "VirtualBox" in a terminal. |
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>> There is a command "VirtualBox" but it's not in your PATH: |
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>> /usr/lib64/virtualbox/VirtualBox |
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> Not here. |
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> # ls -l /usr/lib64/virtualbox/VirtualBox |
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> ls: cannot access '/usr/lib64/virtualbox/VirtualBox': No such file or directory |
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> Maybe the reason can be found here: |
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> # equery u virtualbox | cat |
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> +additions |
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> +alsa |
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> -doc |
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> -extensions |
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> -headless |
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> -java |
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> +opengl |
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> +pam |
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> -pulseaudio |
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> -python |
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> +python_targets_python2_7 |
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> -qt4 |
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> +sdk |
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> +udev |
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> -vboxwebsrv |
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> -vnc |
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VirtualBox is a Qt app and *requires* Qt to get a GUI. There is no |
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option for GTK |
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USE="qt4" |
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or in more recent versions ebuilds (or ~arch) |
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USE="qt5" |
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as appropriate |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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