HOWTOs for Portage
Portage is a package management system used by Gentoo Linux. Gentoo is sometimes referred to as a meta-distribution due to the extreme flexibility of Portage, which even makes it operating-system-independent. Sabayon Linux is based on Gentoo, but is a bit different in a few ways. Portage is not the default package manager for Sabayon and should only be used by those that are highly experienced with Gentoo. Sabayon Linux Entropy Server uses Portage to bring you the binary packages, making your life much simpler.
This page is to separate Portage HowTo articles from Entropy HowTo articles. If you have a HowTo article for Portage, please add it here.
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HowTos
Portage errors, blocks, output problems
"USE-flag vdpau" blocks VLC media player
When upgrading VLC media player with Portage to the latest version, you may find some errors and blocks.
The problem is that the portage-output is not pointing you in the right direction.
The REAL blocker here, is that the USE-flag "vdpau" is enabled on vlc.
Because of that you cannot install <media-video/libav-9.11
vdpau is incompatible with libav. Removing vdpau from the USE flags removes the block and vlc will emerge fine.
To solve, or bypass this, edit:
/etc/portage/package.use/00-sabayon.package.use,
scroll down to the media-video/vlc entry, and add the -vdpau USE-flag
THEN just emerge the package as you normally would do.
This is actually a known bug at Gentoo:
Bug 489922)
NVidia blocks Chromium
Users with NVidia-drivers installed, who wants to emerge/upgrade chromium, will notice that the package prevents chromium
for being emerged. This is because the "tcmalloc USE-flag" is enabled on chromium.
To solve, or bypass this, edit:
/etc/portage/package.use/00-sabayon.package.use,
scroll down to the www-client/chromium entry, and add the -tcmalloc USE-flag
THEN just emerge the package as you normally would do.
systemd
Networking|Hardware
- HOWTO: Realtek 8187b Wireless Networking
- HOWTO: Belkin wireless g usb network adapter F5D7050
- HOWTO: Install FrostWire
- Creative XFi titanium driver fix
Package Management
- HOWTO: Install Packages on Sabayon / The Complete Portage Guide
- HOWTO: Safely mix Entropy and Portage
- HOWTO: Switch from Test to Stable Packages
- HOWTO: Example of Installing 3rd Party Ebuilds
Installation
Recovery
Desktops|compiz
Graphics
Multimedia
- HOWTO: Sipie << Sirius Radio Player
- HOWTO: Setup Mythtv
- HOWTO: PyKaraoke
