"emerge x11-plugins/gkrellweather-0.2.7-r2" only unpacks, installs and merges the package, so /usr/lib/gkrellm/plugins/gkrellweather.so doesn't exist. i had to add: src_compile() { emake || die } to the ebuild, then it worked. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge x11-plugins/gkrellweather-0.2.7-r2 2. start gkrellm (version 1) -> no gkrellweather 3. check /usr/lib/gkrellm/plugins/ -> -> no gkrellweather Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache prelink sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENTOO ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.blueyonder.co.uk/mirrors/gentoo ftp://gentoo.kems.net ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo ftp://mirror.etf.bg.ac.yu/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/Gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dfx 3dnow X aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa apm artswrappersuid avi berkdb bidi bonobo cjk crypt cups dga dvd emacs encode fam foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jpeg kde leim libg++ libwww mad matroska mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl objc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype unicode usb video_cards_3dfx voodoo3 x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
in cvs thx