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| - | ====== Portage ====== | ||
| - | Portage is the package manager of Gentoo. | ||
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| - | ===== Dealing with most problems ===== | ||
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| - | A lot of problems during '' | ||
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| - | If emerge fails you can try : | ||
| - | * if you see that the error message is related to something, try to install this package before (eg opengl). If you don't know to which package a file is related : | ||
| - | < | ||
| - | equery belongs < | ||
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| - | * install manually some of the dependencies before, it changes the order and can work | ||
| - | * if nothing works, unmerge all packages related to what you want (eg x11), or remove them from / | ||
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| - | ===== Emerge step-by-step for modifying source ===== | ||
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| - | <code bash> | ||
| - | ebuild fluxbox fetch ; to download the package | ||
| - | ebuild fluxbox unpack | ||
| - | ; here you can modify sources | ||
| - | ebuild fluxbox compile ; to compile | ||
| - | ebuild fluxbox install ; to install (first part) | ||
| - | ebuild fluxbox qmerge | ||
| - | ebuild fluxbox clean ; to clean temporary folders | ||
| - | </ | ||
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| - | This is exactly equivalent to : | ||
| - | <code bash> | ||
| - | emerge fluxbox | ||
| - | </ | ||
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| - | ===== Save an installed package ===== | ||
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| - | To save your package as it is installed : | ||
| - | <code bash> | ||
| - | quickpkg xorg-x11 | ||
| - | </ | ||
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| - | (you need to emerge '' | ||
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| - | To restore it (obliges emerge to use local binaries) : | ||
| - | <code bash> | ||
| - | emerge -K xorg-x11 | ||
| - | #OR | ||
| - | emerge --usepkgonly -a xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 | ||
| - | </ | ||
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| - | ===== Updating config files ===== | ||
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| - | After an emerge, there is often a warning telling you that some config files need to be updated. The tool called '' | ||
| - | < | ||
| - | sudo etc-update | ||
| - | </ | ||
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| - | ===== Clean your portage folder ===== | ||
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| - | If you do anything about it, your portage folder will grow along time. This is due to the '' | ||
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| - | There is a portage tool called '' | ||
| - | <code bash> | ||
| - | eclean --destructive distfiles | ||
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| - | You can add the '' | ||
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| - | ===== Compiling in RAM ===== | ||
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| - | If you have enough memory, it can be faster to compile directly in the memory instead of on the hard disk. For that, mount ''/ | ||
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| - | ===== List of gentoo packages ===== | ||
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| - | [[http:// | ||
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| - | ===== eix ===== | ||
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| - | '' | ||
| - | <code bash> | ||
| - | eix-sync # to do an emerge --sync and synchronize its database | ||
| - | eix < | ||
| - | </ | ||
