On Saturday, October 9, 2021 7:33:04 A.M. AEDT Skippy wrote: > Greetings. > > I have been using Megasync with Gentoo for many moons. Now I'm having an > assortment of problems. > > Mega is not in the official Gentoo. I've been getting my ebuilds from here: > > http://gpo.zugaina.org/net-misc/megasync > > I currently have 4.4.0 installed. This was working fine until about 2-3 > weeks ago. Now I get this error message when I attempt to start it. > > --------------------
> ------------------------------------------ > > There are newer versions available so I figured this was a good > indicator I should just update Megasync. > > Well the universe hates me and every version of Megasync newer than > 4.4.0 fails. In fact if I attempt to re-emerge my existing 4.4.0 that > fails as well. > > Here is the full emerge log for version 4.5.3. > > https://zerobin.net/?e8b7f31b1ce11c23#4wTnxsnZ+v31rS8PLplBxM+//23zC5b0rMXSAT > uoYDQ= > > I've been informed that 4.5.3 is failing because it needs <=ffmpeg-3.4. > > That brings me to how to install such a version of ffmpeg. My limited > understanding of slots tells me this should be possible, but I've yet to > find anything explaining how to install the older ffmpeg without > disturbing the newer version. > > Any help with this would be greatly appreciate. Much thanks. > > Skippy > ----------------------------------------- > > root # emerge -pqv '=net-misc/megasync-4.5.3::Skippy' > [ebuild U ] net-misc/megasync-4.5.3 [4.4.0] USE="cryptopp curl > readline sqlite thunar zlib -dolphin -examples -freeimage -gnome -java > -nautilus -php -python -threads (-qt5%*)" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" > > ------------------------------------ It looks like you are downloading the ebuild by hand from their web site. I just installed Megesync 4.5.3 on my system, which has ffmpeg-4.4 The commands I used were: layman -a 4nykey to add the 4nykey overlay, which contains megasync, then emerge -a megasync just like other portage programs. If you still get any crypto-related errors, have a look for the recent news item "*2021-07-23-libxcrypt-migration*" eselect news list will get you a list. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro
