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….
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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 – update dev-libs/icu on a desktop box with KDE GUI and many masked packages
No, we are not going to answer why someone will use Gentoo for Desktop, but well such human beings still exist and we have one…
vmware-modules failed with too many arguments to function smp_call_function and smp_call_function_single
vmware-modules is really tough to compile on a bleeding edge kernel like last versions from kernel.org When a new kernel is out the chances you…
distccd failed to exec with “No such file or directory”
And you think your compile box using distccd is ready you start emerge in your server/desktop/laptop and the first package is OK, the your emerge…
Resume compilation of a package from where it failed under Gentoo
Sometimes problems are too specific, but they can show us a path to look for a more general problem and its solution. There was a…
Compilation failure with Value too large for defined data type in Gentoo
It has happened several times for the last 10 years, a program to fail during the configure stage with a strange error: It’s like the…
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….
Create a simple spamassassin rule to catch words
Not so often we need to write our custom rules for fighting against spam, but sometimes we need it, because a spammer just wanted to…
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…