On 2015-03-07, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards <at> gmail.com> writes: > > >> I'm not sure what changed, but as of a few weeks ago I can no longer >> install acroread on my AMD64 system (something to do with x86 >> emulation librarys being blocked by something in the Xorg server). > > Hello Grant, > > I do not remember doing anything special, but acroread works for > me on amd64 with, these:
It used to work for me as well, but now it's blocked: alpha grante # emerge -av acroread These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] dev-util/bsdiff-4.3-r3 6 KiB [ebuild N ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20140508 USE="(development) -opengl" ABI_X86="(-32)" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-opengl-20140508 USE="development" ABI_X86="(-32)" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20140508-r3 USE="development" ABI_X86="(-32)" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] app-text/acroread-9.5.5-r2 USE="nsplugin -html -ldap" LINGUAS="-ja -ko -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 KiB [blocks B ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs[-abi_x86_32(-)] ("app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs[-abi_x86_32(-)]" is blocking dev-libs/libevdev-1.3) Total: 5 packages (5 new), Size of downloads: 6 KiB Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20140508:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by ~app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20140508 required by (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20140508-r3:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs[-abi_x86_32(-)] required by (app-text/acroread-9.5.5-r2:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20100611 required by (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-opengl-20140508:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (dev-libs/libevdev-1.3:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by dev-libs/libevdev required by (x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.9.1:0/0::gentoo, installed) I've probably got the ABI_X86 stuff set incorrectly, but I've never been able to find understandable documentation on how that's supposed to be configured on an AMD64 system where you need to support a few 32-bit apps. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! JAPAN is a WONDERFUL at planet -- I wonder if we'll gmail.com ever reach their level of COMPARATIVE SHOPPING ...