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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.

emerge is the main command-line tool of the software suite, which is the package management system used by the distribution and its derivatives, Calculate and Linux. Portage manages BSD-inspired .

The Gentoo/Alt project works on porting Portage to other operating systems using ports collections (, , , ).

Gentoo documentation: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook.

Gentoo wiki: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage

Man page: http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man1/emerge.1.php

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Portage on Gentoo how to view available software versions?

I would like to install program foo using emerge on a Gentoo system; so I simply use emerge foo to install and portage selects the most current version of that software that's in its repository. If I know the version number and the naming…
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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 packages. This does no checking of dependencies,…
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Packages to rebuild after upgrading gcc on gentoo systems

Which packages should be rebuilt after upgrading gcc on a gentoo system? Is it sufficient to run # emerge -a --oneshot `equery depends gcc |awk '{print " ="$1}'` as suggested similar for perl in this FAQ?
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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 after the version. I know about slots, but these…
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How do you print a list of all upgradeable packages in Gentoo

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On Gentoo, how do I rebuild all packages depended on some other package?

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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?

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Installl a specific version of a portage overlay package

I need to install an older version of x11-libs/bamf package , as you can see below there are different versions available I want to install 0.5.0[2], but it always go to 9999 version using "emerge bamf" i even used "emerge bamf-0.5.2" but no luck,…
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Emerge on Gentoo fails with "Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled … in". How can I resolve this?

I'm trying to install Google Chrome on my recent Gentoo box. But emerge is throwing some errors that are way over my head. I genuinely don't know what the problem even is. !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been…
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How do I apply multiple profiles at once on Gentoo?

I am installing KDE on a Gentoo Linux Hardened system. The official Gentoo wiki says the recommended way is to apply the KDE desktop profile, issue emerge -NDu --with-bdeps=y @world, and then install the kdebase-meta package. However, I am on the…
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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 more details) #required by chrome-binary-plugins…
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emerge scheduled 2 versions of the same package (dev-lang/perl-5.20 vs. perl-5.22) to build - causing conflicts

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How to stop emerge showing "unnecessary" blockages

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