Portage is the software management system of Gentoo Linux
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setup Chromium OS package manager?
Using bash under root I tried to install some packages and whenever I tried I got
!!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY (not a dir): '/usr/portage'
!!! main-repo not set in DEFAULT and PORTDIR is empty.
!!! ...
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GCC running version doesn't match emerged version
Here is the output from my portage search for gcc:
emerge -s gcc
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* sys-devel/gcc
Latest version available: 4.6.3
Latest version installed: 4.6.3
Size of files: 70,353 kB
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Get package use flags
How can I get list of specific package's use flags?
So, there are at least 2 ways to do that:
emerge -pv $PACKAGENAME
equery uses $PACKAGENAME
But these commands returns to many noisy ...
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dev_install failed on ARM chromebook
I'm trying this guide for having access to emerge on chromeos.
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/how-tos-and-troubleshooting/install-software-on-base-images
Unfortunately I always got the same ...
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Gentoo emerge shows dependency conflict
When I try to run this command:
emerge -avuDN world
I get this message:
WARNING: One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency conflict:
media-libs/freetype:2
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Skip a specific upgrade in emerge -auvD world
Is there a simple way to skip a certain upgrade in emerge -auvD world?
For example, currently there is a broken media-sound/teamspeak-server-bin-3.0.5-r1 marked as stable in the portage tree which ...
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where does portage install packages to when I emerge?
When portage installs a package after I emerge some-package where is it installed - my pwd or a specified directory?
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How to resolve conflict between portage and entropy
I have recently installed a fresh Sabayon 7 + KDE distribution. Now I am installing some software using portage. I have typed "emerge thunderbird", however the installation failed because of conflict. ...
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What does a hash symbol in emerge output mean?
When I run emerge -avuDN world I receive a strange output for my grub package:
[ebuild U #] sys-boot/grub-1.99-r2 [1.99_rc1] USE="nls%* sdl%* truetype -custom-cflags -debug -device-mapper% ...
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emerge complains about blocked packages: what do I do?
We have an old development server running Gentoo at work. I would like to update this system, but I keep running into problems with the packaging system. To me, it seems like there are dependencies on ...
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Alternatives to Gentoo Prefix?
Are there any package managers that:
work without root privileges, and
install packages at a custom location (similar to ./configure --prefix), and
install stable packages (unlike Gentoo Prefix ...
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Is it possible to install Gentoo portage manager (emerge) on Ubuntu?
And vice versa?
For example install apt-get on Gentoo and connect Ubuntu's repositories.
And if it is possible how can I do it? (at least in general terms)
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How to recursively build a package and its dependencies on a Debian-based system?
Basically I want
apt-get's dependency resolving ability, and
to compile packages with customized options (such as the loader path).
Can that be done with the apt-* suite? If not, perhaps I can try ...
