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emerge cannot prevent installing as it cannot find the package name
Gentoo emerge cannot find name of package
In attempt to prevent the installation of dev-python/setuptools-53.0.0 failed
emerge: error: Invalid Atom(s) in --exclude parameter: 'dev-python/setuptools-53....
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How do you print a list of all upgradeable packages in Gentoo
doing
emerge -avuDN --with-bdeps y --keep-going @world
takes a whole lot of time and often fails.
Is there a way to print a list of all upgrade-able packages in a Gentoo system?
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How to stop emerge showing "unnecessary" blockages
I am usually updating my ~amd64 Gentoo system using emerge -avNuD --backtrack=100 @world. I do however often get the following type of blockages.
sys-libs/ncurses:5
(sys-libs/ncurses-6.0:5/6::...
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Using ABI_X86 in Gentoo
It's been months since I've updated my Gentoo system. And, as you can imagine, this means there's a lot of packages (and USE changes) I need to go over. My system is "amd64" (multilib), but I have a ...
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Present USE flags upon emerging a package in gentoo
I was wondering if there are any tools to present the compile time options/ flags of a package in Gentoo when emerging. I am referring to something like this
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Safely uninstall a package in Gentoo
I wanted to uninstall a specific package in Gentoo and browsed through the emerge man page. I found the --unmerge option:
WARNING: This action can remove important packages! Removes all
matching ...
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On Gentoo, how do I rebuild all packages depended on some other package?
I made mistake and changed perl non-threaded version to threaded by unmerge first, change USE flags to include ithreads and emerge perl again. Now most packages depending on perl are broken. How do I ...
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On Gentoo is there a way to find a list of installed packages which doesn't have other packages depended on them?
On Gentoo, is there a way to find a list of installed packages which doesn't have other packages depended on them (so called leaf packages)? Or, is there analog of pkg-orphan FreeBSD utility?
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On Gentoo how do I find list of packages installed after some specific date?
I have Gentoo VM that I use to test different puppet recipes and I frequently need to remove packages to bring it to clean initial state. While I could do this by hand when there are only few packages ...
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How to install multiple versions of the same package in Gentoo?
I would like to install two (or more) versions of the same packages on my Gentoo system. I know for sure there won't be any file clash, since there very few files installed and each of them is named ...
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