Re: [gentoo-user] emerge pb with vmware-linux-tools

try this :

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -av vmware



On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:12:26AM +0100, Etienne.Hilson@×××××××.be wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Since my last portage update (like many other people), I got the error message
> Calculating world dependencies
> !!! Problems have been detected with your world file
> !!! Please run emaint --check world
>
> I run emaint --check world and it told me this :
>
> 'app-emulation/vmware-linux-tools' has no ebuilds available
>
> Then, I do a emerge -s vmware-linux-tools :
>
> *  app-emulation/vmware-linux-tools [ Masked ]
>       Latest version available: 5.0.0
>       Latest version installed: 5.0.0
>       Size of downloaded files: 11,103 kB
>       Homepage:    http://www.vmware.com/
>       Description: Guest-os tools for VMWare workstation
>       License:     vmware
>
> Then I thought "Oh yes, sure this stuff is not into the stable branch !"
> (and I'm not "~x86" because I'm a Gentoo newbie)
>
> I make also a emerge --info vmware-linux-tools to check but I saw this :
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
>
> I don't understand then why it is masked...
>
> I search on the Gentoo portage documentation and put
> app-emulation/vmware-linux-tools
> into the /etc/portage/package.unmask file
> but after that, nothing changed :-(
>
> I have two questions :
> Why is it masked although ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ?
> How could I resolve my issue and make it unmasked for me ?
>
> Thank you :-)
>
>
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