How to update Gentoo Linux:
- Actually is very easy with the power of emerge. You need to sync your Gentoo with an online mirror in order to check what programs have been updated. To do so you run emerge -pv -sync --deep world. What that does is that it tells Gentoo to -pretend and be -verbose that it is going to -sync its Portage database with an online mirror, --deep scan for dependencies and for extra applications that need to be updated and update the whole world, where world is your Gentoo installation.
- If you are unable to run emerge sync for any reason, you can also try emerge-webresync which is a web based sync for those behind restrictive firewalls.
- Finally do not forget that there is no reason for you to do this every day and every hour as it just wastes cpu time/bandwidth and it is also not something that agrees with Gentoo common netiquette. Be courteous :)
.BR
- Actually is very easy with the power of emerge. You need to sync your Gentoo with an online mirror in order to check what programs have been updated. To do so you run emerge -pv -sync --deep world. What that does is that it tells Gentoo to -pretend and be -verbose that it is going to -sync its Portage database with an online mirror, --deep scan for dependencies and for extra applications that need to be updated and update the whole world, where world is your Gentoo installation.
- If you are unable to run emerge sync for any reason, you can also try emerge-webresync which is a web based sync for those behind restrictive firewalls.
- Finally do not forget that there is no reason for you to do this every day and every hour as it just wastes cpu time/bandwidth and it is also not something that agrees with Gentoo common netiquette. Be courteous :)
.BR
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