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Gentoo is a free and open source Linux and FreeBSD distribution that uses the Portage package management system.

Gentoo is a free and open source Linux and FreeBSD distribution that uses the Portage package management system.

Unlike typical distributions, Gentoo requires the user to compile each package's source code locally. The main benefit is that the Portage system allows the user to personalise the compilation of each package into binaries, and can automatically fetch and build any other packages the desired package depends on. The end result is a set of binaries on the system that exactly matches the system configuration and the specific functionality the user wants.

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Skip a specific upgrade in emerge -auvD world

Is there a simple way to skip a certain upgrade in emerge -auvD world? For example, currently there is a broken media-sound/teamspeak-server-bin-3.0.5-r1 marked as stable in the portage tree which breaks the whole upgrade since that package is the…
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Use Caps Lock LED as HDD LED (or custom) indicator

I have my Caps Lock key remapped to Esc, so now I have a LED on my keyboard that is never on. I'd like to use it for something useful, like HDD or LAN activity. Especially that I'm using a computer with a custom box & heatsinks (built into my drawer…
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Is it a good idea to use git for configuration file version controlling?

I use Gentoo Linux and it has rather complex configuration. My question is it wise to use git for version controlling my config files? I have some git repos in my home, my guess if I put /home/** to my .gitignore they will not cause…
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What does `tar -C` mean?

In the section "Installing Portage", the Gentoo installation docs say: # tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr What does this command do?
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Set proper rights for sshfs mountpoint so it can be shared with samba

I have a domain hoster that provides access via SSH. My platforms are: Gentoo 2.6.36-r5 Windows (XP/Vista/7) I work on my Windows, I use Gentoo to do all the magic Windows can't do. Therefore I use sshfs to mount the remote public directory for my…
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Display messd up with weird characters in Gentoo after `cat` a binary file

I ran cat /etc/localtime to see the contents of /etc/localtime - however it's a binary file, so my console became like this: You may notice the red text in screenshot is "LiveCD"; commands can be executed correctly, but they display in a weird way.…
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Don't let the mouse wake up displays from standby

I like to put my displays to powersave/standby mode when I leave the computer for a while. It would be ok if it weren't for oversensitive mouse. Sometimes the driver reads in some movement that's not visible to the naked eye (the cursor, that is)…
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Chrome 33 shows ugly, blocky, pixelated fonts in Linux

After updating to the latest version of Chrome (33) on my Gentoo Linux box, certain sites such as GitHub have started rendering with ugly, pixelated, non-antialiased fonts. Small text is now basically impossible to read. Before this, GitHub had…
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The Less command can list directory contents in Gentoo Linux, but not in Ubuntu Linux

I regularly use the 'less' command in Gentoo like so: less /tmp (or any other directory, which I have access to.) Less then proceeds to show me the contents of that directory. I can also use Less to show the contents of files (the usual use…
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How does WUBI handle partitions upon shutdown?

Alright, so, basically, I'm trying to boot up Gentoo in a manner similar to WUBI; I have an installation on an ext4-formatted loopback file, BURG installed under the Windows Bootloader, and the kernel/initramfs available for booting. The booting…
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Why is Chromium running all tabs in a single process?

Typically, Chromium will group n tabs together into a single OS process, where n is typically a small number. However, for one of my Chromium profiles, all of my currently open tabs appear to be in the same process. To be exact, there are 43 tabs…
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grub2-install: error: /boot/efi doesn't look like an EFI partition on a fresh Gentoo install

I need a Gentoo 13 machine to test some software on the platform. I'm not a Gentoo regular, so I'm suffering their install procedures. I'm at Configuring the bootloader | Installing GRUB2, and it failed with: # grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi…
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restore /dev after `rm`ing it

during a gentoo install from the livedvd, there's one step to create a dev dir to be used later in the chroot of the target for the instalation it's done like that mount --rbind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev in the middle of the installation i decided to…
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How do I update a package on Gentoo Linux

How do I update a package in Gentoo Linux?
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iproute2 not functioning ("RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported")

The command and error message: gtwy ~ # ip rule add from 64.251.23.186 table t1 RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported Older article of the same problem, but it did not help me:…
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