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- How to fix "file not recognized" during emerge - Today I was updating my machine when there was a power cut. Following restoration of the power Firefox and Thunderbird would not compile, with the following error: /usr/lib64/libhunspell-1.3.so: file not recognized: File format not recognized Brows...
- 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...
- Current gcc removed by depclean - I found that one Gentoo depclean removed the version of gcc that my system was configured to use, which is required for compiling packages. I got the following output from emerge -a --depclean, after carelessly giving it the go-ahead: me@pc ~ $ sudo e...
- 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...
- Clear disk space on Gentoo - Freeing up disk space on Gentoo can be complex. Read this wiki article for an introduction: Knowledge Base:Freeing disk space - Gentoo Wiki. Here’s what I do… Clean portage files Check usage: me@pc ~ $ sudo du -hs /var/tmp/portage 0 /var/tmp/portag...
