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How to fix what emerge is complaining about?
I have a Gentoo 13 system built from sources following the handbook. Its in the default/linux/amd64/13.0 configuration. I use the system to test other software on the platform. Software testing is the ...
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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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Force to rebuild gentoo packages which have been merged as dependency
How can I upgrade (emerge) packages which came as dependency and which I do not want to add to the worldfile as selected packages?
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The package media-libs/jpeg was installed as dependency of ...
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pkg-config doesn't find package file when folder is listed in PKG_CONFIG_PATH
So here is my PKG_CONFIG_PATH contents:
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
and here is the output of locate lv2.pc (lv2 is the library I'm trying to link with)
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/lv2....
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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 is a good strategy to maintain a set of binaries for Gentoo?
There is the world favourites file in which you can record your favourite packages, then there is the where you can record packages and compile whenever. Also there is http://paludis.pioto.org/.
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How to install a old ebuild while it's no longer in the portage tree? For example, subversion 1.4.4
For compatibility reasons, I want to install subversion-1.4.4-r4 rather than the latest.
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Can I use a package manager of one distribution on another?
I want to use Gentoo's packages on Fedora. Is this possible?
EDIT: I meant that I want to use Gentoo's portage tree.
UPDATE: How about Ubuntu's packages on Fedora? Or Fedora's on Gentoo? Or any ...
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