On December 8, 2016 11:46:43 PM GMT+01:00, Alan McKinnon 
<alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>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

USE="-qt4" means qt5 I think.

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