Gentoo

• ARCH is not set - If you get the following error when attempting to use emerge: # emerge [whatever] These are the packages that I would merge, in order: !!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink? !!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage...
• Change your default Java VM - To see which VMs are available: java-config --list-available-vms Example: steph@localhost # java-config --list-available-vms The following VMs are available for generation-2: 1) Blackdown JDK 1.4.2.03 [blackdown-jdk-1.4.2] *) Sun JDK 1....
• Gentoo Basics - Gentoo is the most recent distribution I've tried and I thoroughly recommend it. Gentoo have produced brilliant documentation - perhaps the best examples I've seen - so visit http://www.gentoo.org before reading anything here. This page is simply my ...
• Gentoo Links - Some links about Gentoo that may prove useful. HOWTO Use Portage Correctly – Information about portage, for example, use flag colour codes. Disk cryptography with dm-crypt – How to encrypt swap, tmp and other arbitrary locations. HOWTO Cr...
• How to downgrade a gentoo package - To downgrade a gentoo package you have to tell portage that the latest packages are not wanted. Do this by adding them to /etc/portage/package.mask. =www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.7 That will prevent firefox 3.0.7 being installed when you emerge f...
• Installing Gentoo Linux on an Acer Travelmate 8104WLMi - This is a rough guide for installing Gentoo Linux on an Acer Travelmate 8104 WLMi, a laptop/notebook from Acer's 8100 range. It is derived from a set of notes I took whilst attempting the installation myself, hence the reason it's written in the firs...
• Intel HDA on Gentoo - Intel HDA is a specification, the successor to AC’97. Still requires codec. With Intel HD Audio built into kernel, with all codecs, you see the following in dmesg after boot: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16. ... ALSA dev...
• Kernel compile udev/klibc problem after updating gentoo - Under construction localhost / # genkernel all * Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 3.3.11d * Running with options: all * Linux Kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 for x86... * udev: >> Compiling... COMMAND: make j1 EXTRAS="extras/scsi_id extras/volume_id...
• Logitech QuickCam webcam on Gentoo - Enable OHCI and UHCI support and V4L2 support in kernel. Don’t enable v4l compatibility layer because it causes problems with emerging linux-uvc. Mic requires USB audio support in kernel. linux-uvc not needed, because cam supported by in-kernel...
• MIME types - Some notes on MIME types in Gentoo linux (and presumably other distributions)... MIME types The app-misc/mime-types packages provides a list of mime types in /etc/mime.types (note that this package has a version number on the end - the exact version of...
• No rule to make target `menuconfig` - If you receive the following error when trying to configure your kernel… bpc linux # make menuconfig make: *** No rule to make target `menuconfig'. Stop. …then you could have accidentally removed your kernel sources when you cleaned t...
• NTP daylight savings on Gentoo - So, you've followed the Gentoo Linux Localization Guide and the the NTP guide on the wiki... cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime In /etc/conf.d/clock: TIMEZONE="Europe/London" In /etc/conf.d/clock: CLOCK="UTC" CLOCK_SYSTOHC="y...
• OpenOffice help problem - The help system in OpenOffice.org 2.0 will not work if it was not compiled with java support, so you will receive the following message when opening the help: The help file for this topic is not installed. Recompile openoffice with the java USE fla...
• Prevent network interface starting at boot - After updating my system, net.eth0 was started at boot despite the fact that it wasn't set to start at the boot runlevel. This was annoying because it would default to DHCP and take some time to time out, hence delaying the boot of my system. The rc-up...
• How to prevent a package being removed on depclean - Packages recorded in the world file (at /var/lib/portage/world) will not be removed when you clean the dependencies via emerge --depclean. Gentoo will add a package name to the world file when you install it explicitly via emerge. Dependencies automati...
• How to remove KDE from gentoo - list all packages in kde-base: for p in /var/db/pkg/kde-base/*; do echo $p|sed -e 's#.*/#=#'; done Uninstall / remove: for p in /var/db/pkg/kde-base/*; do echo $p|sed -e 's#.*/#=#'|xargs emerge -C; done
• Wireless network problem with wpa_supplicant (wpa_cli) and ipw2200-firmware - If you are using wpa_supplicant with ipw2200-firmware and it refuses to connect with the following messages in /var/log/messages: Aug 30 13:37:02 localhost wpa_cli: interface eth1 DISCONNECTED Aug 30 13:37:02 localhost wpa_cli: interface eth1 DISCONN...

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