Questions tagged [portage]
Portage is the software management system of Gentoo Linux
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Why does emerging fail?
Running emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources fails due to Failed to install sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.9.16, but both the command output and the mentioned log file don't contain any information afaik:
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Generate manifest for distfiles, when writing ebuilds for Portage
I tried to install leiningen from the rebel overlay, however it has a not matching manifest for lein-pkg. So I put it into a local overlay to fix it.
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How can I generate manifest for ...
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Why does Portage complain for lack of a `portage` Python module?
I'm currently trying to get a Gentoo Prefix set up. I grabbed the bootstrap script and ran it, and it got partway through stage three and finished installing the kernel headers before Portage broke. ...
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How do I get Portage to download a package, and do nothing more?
After having some trouble connecting to a TLS server and then noticing that app-misc/ca-certificates is a year and four months behind, I got curious as to what's changed since 20140927.3.17.2. I ...
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May I use portage on ChromiumOS natively?
May I unlock Portage on ChromiumOS or reinstall it natively without jails and other 'install linux inside ChromiumOS' approaches? May I use Gentoo default repository then?
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I like ChromiumOS look ...
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Gentoo portage: list all variables emerge invoked with
Is there an easy way to list all variables of emerge process?
I need to list all resulting variables after /etc/portage/env/* and /etc/portage/bashrc wiil be applyed to debug this scripts.
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Gentoo Portage Circular Dependency
I installed a new Gentoo Linux on my box. I'm using Arch Linux for a while now and I thought it was time for something new.
The system runs happily and it is bootable, but I can't figure out how to ...
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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 information. ...
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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
(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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