installation error on gentoo?

nate13 · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2013 Posts: 1 Location: New Hampshire

I have recently learned that to install something on linux, you use the sudo apt-get command, but in gentoo it keeps saying that the command doesn't exist. is it a problem with gentoo, or just an incompatible command?

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Yamakuzure · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:09 pm Post subject:

apt-get is from Debian (and its derivates like ubuntu). Using Gentoo the correct command is "emerge".

Please take a look at the documentation here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml
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John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 6:17 pm Post subject:

Nate, welcome to Gentoo.

Have you read the Handbook yet? Specifically, the Working with Gentoo section covers this subject matter.

- John
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