On Friday 23 February 2007, mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW!
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