As the tree also holds the groupwise 7 clients, you have to mask all versions greater then 6.x

# layman -a n4g
# echo ">=net-mail/novell-groupwise-gwclient-7.0" >> /etc/portage/packages.mask
# emerge -uND novell-groupwsie-gwclient

Or use the experimental overlay if you want to experiment with the new (cutting edge) ebuilds.

# layman -a n4g
# layman -a n4g-experimetal
# echo ">=net-mail/novell-groupwise-gwclient-7.0" >> /etc/portage/packages.mask
# emerge -uND novell-groupwsie-gwclient

You can start it from console:

# /opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise

Or start it from the “Internet” submenu in your start menu

When you start GW you get an error along the lines of:

groupwise-bin: xcb_xlib.c:52: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.
/usr/bin/groupwise: line 3: 10692 Aborted  /opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise-bin "$@"

follow the instructions in the compiz Howto: XCB workaround

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