Firefox 3 masked by ~amd64 keyword

Zach_the_Lizard · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2008 Posts: 17 Location: /root

When I run emerge mozilla-firefox, after having masked Firefox 2,it complains by saying "www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0-r1 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)" I do not know how to get around this masking, and so am for the moment running Firefox 2. I would like to get Firefox 3 installed. How do I unmask this program? I have tried entering www-client/mozilla-firefox, www-client/mozilla-firefox ~amd64, and by doing the previous but adding in the version. I put all of this into /etc/portage/portage.keywords and portage.unmask and it doesn't work.

reup · Guru Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 419 Location: Nederland

there is in portage a nice little soft that does it :
app-portage/autounmask
it is not beautiful in your files as it add too much comments, but you can use it for difficult cases and clean your files after that
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Zach_the_Lizard · n00b Joined: 20 Jun 2008 Posts: 17 Location: /root

Thanks, I'll check it out.

mkk · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2004 Posts: 56

zyko · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 3:15 am Post subject:

Unless you're a TLDNR kinda guy, you should take a looksie at HOWTO use portage correctly (gentoo-wiki.com) and Working with Gentoo (official handbook), srsly.