Some very useful Gentoo Linux tips for using the emerge command to install software.

The emerge -atv emacs command will tell you what packages will be merged when installing a copy of Emacs on your Gentoo GNU/Linux system. ec2-user@ip-172-31-30-35 ~ $ sudo emerge -atv emacs   * IMPORTANT: 8 news items need reading for repository ‘gentoo’. * Use eselect news to read news items.     These are the … Read more

Gentoo kernel installation.

Performing a kernel upgrade on Gentoo GNU/Linux How best to upgrade the Gentoo kernel. Installing a vanilla kernel for the Gentoo GNU/Linux distribution is very easy. This is necessary when a kernel upgrade is required. Just install the vanilla kernel source from kernel.org and then unpack the sources into /usr/src/linux as shown below. I am … Read more