Questions tagged [emerge]
emerge is the definitive command-line interface to the Portage system. It is primarily used for installing packages, and can automatically handle any dependencies that the desired package has. There are at least three distributions which widely use this tool: Calculate, Funtoo and Gentoo Linux.
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Gentoo: cannot install sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.6, no error message
I am trying to install Gentoo on an old laptop following the online handbook. I got as far as installing the kernel sources (see here): the installation with
emerge --ask sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
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On vanilla Gentoo, why does Portage "emerge install & remove" not remove a package?
On a freshly installed Gentoo 2.13 system, I ran these commands to install my first package:
$ cat /etc/gentoo-release
Gentoo Base System release 2.13
$ sudo emaint -a sync
$ sudo emerge app-editors/...
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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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media-libs/libogg package won't install because lack of certificate
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What I am trying to do: I want to install kde-plasma desktop enviroment, on my gentoo machine that works only in text mode now. emerge --ask kde-plasma/plasma-...
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Gentoo invalid profile
So. Been going at the gentoo install without proper instructions until very recently. After emerge-webrsync stage of the install a message pops up saying "your current profile is invalid". ...
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How to install PFL (e-file) on Gentoo (in Docker)
I can't seem to figure out how to install pfl in order to get the e-file command.
It was mentioned here that the pfl package would install the e-file command.
So started a Gentoo Docker container and ...
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How can I run many emerge jobs in paralell?
When I install many packages at once, I use emerge --jobs=8 firefox vim.
This will install the packages, but it won't run everything in paralel.
For example, it will wait compile rust before compiling ...
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Is it safe to install packages with multiple instances of emerge running at the same time?
I'm currently installing Gentoo by following the Handbook. I ran emerge -uDN @world after changing USE flags and it's taking hours, but I would like to continue with the next step. Is it fine to ...
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How to disable portage LICENSE checks
Whenever I install a package with an EULA, portage asks me to add it to package.license:
The following license changes are necessary to proceed:
(see "package.license" in the portage(5) man page for ...
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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 to force a package to use a Python version in Gentoo?
I would like to use only one Python3 version for all my packages in a Gentoo system. So I looked for the installed versions and found out that three versions are installed: 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8. I would ...
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There are no ebuilds to satisfy
So, I want to install the vimb browser from a Gentoo overlay called 'booboo'. I added the overlay with layman and ran emerge vimb. This is what I get:
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">...
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emerge /etc/portage/make.profile is not a symlink during Gentoo installation?
I cannot run emerge-webrsync because it says that snapshots are not found.
Nor can I execute mirrorselect, since I get command not found.
Finally, I tried to run:
$ emerge --ask app-portage/...
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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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