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