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- 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...
- 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 the package de...
- How to determine Gentoo version - See the command trail below to determine the following info: Gentoo release aka baselayout Kernel version bpc steph # cat /etc/gentoo-release Gentoo Base System release 2.2 bpc steph # uname -r 3.2.12-gentoo Or… bpc steph # equery list base...
- Determine release (distribution) information - To get release information about your Linux distribution, look for a file in the /etc directory that contains "release" in it's name. On a Gentoo system, this is called /etc/gentoo-release. Redhat will be something like redhat-release. ...
