Questions tagged [gentoo]
Gentoo is a free and open source Linux and FreeBSD distribution that uses the Portage package management system.
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Use Caps Lock LED as HDD LED (or custom) indicator
I have my Caps Lock key remapped to Esc, so now I have a LED on my keyboard that is never on. I'd like to use it for something useful, like HDD or LAN activity.
Especially that I'm using a computer ...
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Chrome 33 shows ugly, blocky, pixelated fonts in Linux
After updating to the latest version of Chrome (33) on my Gentoo Linux box, certain sites such as GitHub have started rendering with ugly, pixelated, non-antialiased fonts. Small text is now basically ...
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The Less command can list directory contents in Gentoo Linux, but not in Ubuntu Linux
I regularly use the 'less' command in Gentoo like so:
less /tmp
(or any other directory, which I have access to.)
Less then proceeds to show me the contents of that directory. I can also use Less to ...
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iproute2 not functioning ("RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported")
The command and error message:
gtwy ~ # ip rule add from 64.251.23.186 table t1
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported
Older article of the same problem, but it did not help me: http://forums....
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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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Gentoo Blocky Fonts
So, I've fresh installed Gentoo with Gnome. Ever since then I've had super blocky fonts like this
I'd appreciate any help on this, or really just a link to anything else because googling gets me no ...
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Squid over i2p, tor and localhost resources [duplicate]
i try to setup squid as a single top-level proxy, that give me access to i2p, tor(through privoxy) and some localhost resources.
I`m using Gentoo and squid 3.2.13, if it is important.
In this regard, ...
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List currently installed unstable packages (Gentoo Linux)
I accidentally removed my package accept_keywords file. There were only a few packages which I needed from ~amd64, but I can't remember them all. I could recover them if I had the list all the ...
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Can't mount share in VirtualBox guest
I'm attempting to mount a share in a guest OS in VirtualBox:
$ mount -t vboxsf share /mnt/share
/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device
If I click the folder icon in the ...
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How to force files together on a Linux partition?
I have a dynamically expanding VDI file which is 14 GB big while the partition itself is only 2 GB.
The files are too spread out over the disk so zero-ing the free space and compacting the VDI didn't ...