vlc installed emerged without any errors but no gui [solved]

[padoor]

emerge vlc went ok said merged vlc to world file.
but vlc does not come up .
no gui
it just does not work
any pointers?
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[truc]

which use flags? (enable especially wxwindow )

[Ben_Wykes]

Had the same problem myself - the solution for me was here :

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-gentoo.html

However we advice to always use the latest (and 'unstable') version of VLC. For this you will first need to add the following line "media-video/vlc ~x86" to the file "/etc/portage/package.keywords". If the file does not yet exist you should create it.

When you don't set the correct USE variables, you will get a very bare bones version of VLC. We advice to emerge with the following USE variables: "dvd ffmpeg mpeg mad wxwindows aac dts a52 ogg flac theora oggvorbis matroska freetype bidi xv svga gnutls stream vlm httpd cdda vcd cdio live". You can set these variables for VLC by adding the line "media-video/vlc dvd ffmpeg mpeg mad wxwindows aac dts a52 ogg flac theora oggvorbis matroska freetype bidi xv svga gnutls stream vlm httpd cdda vcd cdio live" to the file "/etc/portage/package.use". This will give you a fully functioning VLC. Be very careful if you decide to disable some of these USE flags. You can loose more functionality than you might expect.

[padoor]

i installed vlc as per above informations.
it works nicely now
thanks very much
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