Gentoo

Links

• Gentoo homepage

Documentation

• Overlays
• Gentoo Cheat Sheet
• Wiki
• devmanual
• Compiling zabbix

Gentoo tools

Find out what ebuild will provide a file

• File to Ebuild DB

What ebuild does a file belong to?

equery belongs

Docs

• KDE on Gentoo

Tips

emerge -uvDNp world

ATI OpenGL on Gentoo

FAQ

Profiles

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Profile_(Portage)

Show available profiles

eselect profile list

See how emerge is doing

tail -f /var/log/emerge.log

Debugging software

• http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml

using eselect

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml

Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size

ebuild foo.ebuild digest

slots

• About slots
• http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/slotting/index.html

If there's multiple slots, and one of them is called '3', emerge using

emerge foo:3

==IMPORTANT: 10 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating."

etc-update?