problem installing mayavi

manouchk · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:40 am Post subject: problem installing mayavi

I have a problem for installing mayavi. Can you figure out the problem?

I downloaded mayavi-1.5-r1.ebuild (respect tcl flag) from
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50464

putted it in /usr/local/portage/app-sci/mayavi
...
ebuild mayavi-1.5-r1.ebuild digest
>>> Creating Manifest for /usr/local/portage/app-sci/mayavi
manu mayavi # emerge -pv mayavi

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "mayavi".

manu mayavi # more /etc/make.conf|grep /usr/local
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/sci"

moesasji · Apprentice Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 263

Your problem might be related to the keywords you use.
That specific ebuild only has KEYWORDS="~x86"
If you run a stable x86 you need to add this package to /etc/portage/package.keywords.

See this page in the handbook for more details if you are not familiar with it.

manouchk · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject:

No, the problem is not that because in this case it would have returned a message saying that mayavi is masked or something like that but that's true that when it work I will need to add. I just added

app-sci/mayavi ~x86
in /etc/portage/package.keywords but no chance

Well, I solved the problem by moving mayavi there :
/usr/local/portage/sci-misc/mayavi

apparently mayavi cannot be in /usr/local/portage/app-sci/

so I have a problem with that bug : https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50464

:?: