Guys please help me install Gentoo with binary packages

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 6:19 pm Post subject:

justguy,

Every Gentoo install is different. Gentoo is the portage package manager and the ::gentoo ebuild repository. That's it.
You design your install then use the provided tools to make it happen.
That is what we all have in common here. We all use the portage package manager and the ::gentoo ebuild repository to achieve our different installs.

You don't actually install everything from source. The stage3 tarball is a set a binary packages that every normal Gentoo install must have.
Add to that the packages needed to boot, a kernel and a boot loader and you have a minimal Gentoo install.

How packages are built does not matter for later.You can use binaries at any time.
What matters is that existing packages are built in a way to support later packages.
If not, with a source install, portage will rebuild things. With a binary install, that's not allowed as it involves building.

Choose the correct profile for your intended install.
Do not set any USE flags and the Gentoo provided binhost should work.
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yaslam · n00b Joined: 08 May 2024 Posts: 40

I have created a guide on how to quickly install Gentoo (note, some parts you still need to read the WIKI) but it is a very fast way to install Gentoo.
https://blog.leenucks.xyz/2024/09/25/gentoo-install.html

yaslam · n00b Joined: 08 May 2024 Posts: 40

NOTE: You don't actually need to compile @world while installing Gentoo, you can do that when the installation is done. Same for kernel compilation, the WIKI recommends using a dist-kernel (gentoo-kernel-bin) first and then basing your own kernel configuration off that (see: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Kernel#Alternative:_Manual_configuration).

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 8:53 am Post subject:

justguy,

Beware guides produced by individual users, be they videos, Wiki pages, blogs ... whatever.
They all lack peer review and improvement from use and reuse.
The handbook is peer reviewed by developers and used every day. There is no shortage of user feedback either. See the Discussion pages.

Help your helpers to help you by following a guide that is well understood.
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justguy · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2025 Posts: 22

Idk for my easier to install from source and after this enable binary feature

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 9:20 am Post subject:

justguy,

Do not confuse 'faster' and 'easier'.
An install using binaries will use less of your CPU cycles than an install using sources.

The difference is the emerge option

justguy · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2025 Posts: 22

And by the way -binpkg-respect-use in make.conf it is respect use flags and you can set USE flags then using binary packages

C5ace · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 5:24 pm Post subject:

Just installed Gentoo based Xfce binary distribution from "Calculate Linux" on a new laptop. Took me about 20 minutes until logging into the new installation.

Go to https://wiki.calculate-linux.org/desktop
Download the appropriate version.
Burn the .iso file on USB stick.
Boot USB stick.
Open browser to check that internet works.
Click on Installer Icon and follow instructions.
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Banana · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 6:04 pm Post subject:

C5ace · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 10:27 pm Post subject:

I understand that from justguy's first post that he wants to install binary Gentoo. Calculate-Linux is the only distribution that after installation can be converted to a full source based Gentoo installation.
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justguy · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2025 Posts: 22

Calculate linux not option because its have dont needed apps by default

pietinger · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 2:33 am Post subject:

Moderator note:

This is the Gentoo Linux discussion and support forum. We are all aware that there are other Linux distributions. Therefore, references to them are not necessary. If someone wants to excessively and repeatedly promote another Linux, they should not do so here, as it is inappropriate and may confuse Gentoo newcomers. I looked at the following old posts:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8837282.html#8837282
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8841582.html#8841582
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8800903.html#8800903

If I still have to read advertisements for Calculate Linux again, this will have consequences.
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