Portage on Ubuntu

worldgnat · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Posts: 53

Ok, so I'm trying to trick out my mom's laptop, she's running Ubuntu and I think it'll have to stay that way, however I want to install portage. I've heard it can be done, and that people have done it on Mac OS X (which I think is really cool). However, I downloaded a portage snapshot, and guess what! No emerge binary. I guess I should have expected that because while staring at my screen installing Gentoo I've never actually seen a bin directory for portage. Any ideas? Comments? Suggestions?

Thanks,
-Peter

mark_alec · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:51 am Post subject:

Moved from Portage & Programming to Unsupported Software.

See if this thread helps you.

edit: fixed my link up
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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

He meant that

worldgnat · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Posts: 53

Thanks. On ubuntu is there any reason why glibc/binutils/etc are going to kill it? I've installed them using apt-get before with no problems.

Thanks,
-Peter

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Those are components of the toolchain. It's like messing with the foundations of a house :wink:

If your changes are binary-compatible with the old versions, you may get away with it. There's also patches to take into consideration.

worldgnat · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Posts: 53

Ouch! I guess I'll have to find Ramjack for Ubuntu. Thanks for the help.

-Peter