Re: [tlug] Gentoo

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Phillip Tribble wrote:
> I tried to install Gentoo last night and I realized that you have to 
> download everything separately from gentoo-portage.com. Is there a 
> program that automatically fetches ebuilds and installs them without 
> compiling?

If you have installed your system according to the manual you probably 
already have a portage tree in /usr/portage and so can skip the 
following step.  If not download a snapshot of the portage tree from the 
mirror you got the install cd from and untar it i.e.

# cd /usr && tar -xjvf portage-latest.tar.bz2

then update it to the latest version with

# emerge --sync

if you want to build packages without installing it onto your system use

# emerge -B [package name]

where [package name] is the package you want to build

Edward