Blog . Jiboneus

The most fun I have with an OS ever. Gentoo Package management ‘Portage‘ is great. To recap, what Portage do is it actually download the source of the application you asking from any of the portage mirrors on the web and check for and dependencies, if there are any it will download those too. It then compiles all the sources, and you have your application now.

Firstly you basically install the entire OS through Portage. Any software you need after that, you also could get through Portage. So I carried on making my Gentoo box. It of cause need a window manager (GUI) most Linux distro come with either KDE or Gnome or both. I decided not to use neither, end up using Xfce. I like the simplicity of Xfce, it’s fast and not bulky at all. Well then, start up portage by

emerge xfce

and there you go you have Xfce. Ok it’s not that simple you might need XDM and configure your X to start when you boot and stuff.

Right after this I when Portage emerge power crazy. I emerge this emerge that. If I wan a software I just need to type emerge software name. Firefox, mousepad, Apache2, Nautilus, MySQL, the power run doesn’t run long though. It stop when I wan’t to get PHP5, because I found what they in the portage world call ‘masked’. What masked packages are actually packages that have an ebuild but are still being tested. It’s denoted with this ~ sign.

The easy way, which what I did to get PHP5 install is to set on my portage config file to just ignore the mask and

emerge dev-lang/php

anyway. I so far haven’t had any problem with PHP5.

Technorati Tags: Gentoo Linux Misuzu portage

Popularity: 6% [?]