Recently emerging package =dev-lang/go-1.13.4 under Gentoo failed on one of our virtual servers with: The above log shows that the emerge fails in the installation…
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Gentoo – updating perl and problems like perl-core/ is blocking virtual/perl-
When upgrading Perl under Gentoo it’s almost typical to have blocks of the kind: These blocks appeared when we tried updaring the Perl 5.26 to…
emerge – ERROR: 17.1 migration has not been performed – upgrade from 13 to 17.1
When upgrading to 17.1 profile you need to perform additional steps to get to a healthy Gentoo portage system using profile 17.1. Here what we…
Failed to install sys-apps/portage – Called pkg_preinst – portage._compat_upgrade.default_locations
Recently there was a problem with one compute node servers, which Gentoo (in fact, the chroot environment had not been updated for 3 years) could…
Fix your broken or old portage in Gentoo, fix the emerge command
Using Gentoo for servers and chroots it might happen to deal with old and not regularly updated Gentoo environment, which in some cases is completely…
emerge – cannot sync with gpg: keyserver refresh failed: General error because of wrong date
Trying to sync one of our virtual servers we got a sync error not able to refresh the OpenPGP keys. The virtual server was just…
Gentoo kde-frameworks/kdewebkit failed compilation with Qt5WebKit could not be found because dependency is required
Updating the KDE Plasma Desktop in our Gentoo workstations this time failed with It was strange because the previous emerge included the QT upgrade from…
portage is blocked by “the current version of portage supports EAPI ‘6’. You must upgrade”
We’ve synced the portage tree before upgrading our old portage package (big mistake! always upgrade the portage package before sync) and then do the sync….
Access Violation error when compiling packages in Gentoo – symlink
Here is another example of an Access violation error when building packages in Gentoo. This time the build process could not make a symbolic link…
Gentoo emerge: Failed Running automake
This article is for Gentoo build problem: Failed Running automake but basically the problem could occur in any Linux system and the solution is logically…