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Blocked packages problem in gentoo
I want to install xfce on gentoo but after running root #emerge --ask xfce-base/xfce4-meta there is error that the packages are blocked and i tried many things but none of them work. Please help me ...
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emerge reports "nothing to merge" for a crossdev toolchain unless executed inside chroot
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My host Gentoo installation is bootstrapped from a stage3 tarball, systemd version. My crossdev toolchain is aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu without systemd, compiled from scratch, not --stable. As for ...
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Command not found: eselect
I am using Gentoo (for the first time, actually). I am trying to set up package management. I discovered that I have to set up portage (emerge). While doing so, I had to run emerge --sync. That gave ...
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Emerge (Gentoo) reports package as being installed and not installed
I am trying to upgrade a Gentoo installation from end 2018 to the current version (March 2020). I am following the instructions given here.
I have a host installation which contains an up-to-date (...
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Manual emerge package zlib
How can I install/emerge a package manual in gentoo?
I cannot download this package (ZLIB), because it gets blocked by our IT-Firewall (invalid decompression table). They scan each http/ftp request ...
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