It’s not so rear to have blocks or masked files when using Gentoo emerge system, but it is not complex and in most cases it…
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Gentoo updating KDE – package blocks
In continuing our tips for updating big or multiple packages in Gentoo this time we show how to update KDE Platform, Plasma and Apps packages….
Gentoo updating perl with many masked and blocked packages
After our previous howto Gentoo – update dev-libs/icu on a desktop box with KDE GUI and many masked packages we want to show you another…
Gentoo emerge a package with a custom option passed to the configure
Gentoo is a source-based Linux distro and each time we want to install a package in fact we compile it with the system program emerge….
Access Violation error, when compiling packages in Gentoo
Sometimes if you try to emerge a package in Gentoo you could receive error in the configure phase of the compilation process. The example below…