how to update programs

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c0vert · Post by **c0vert** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:41 am

Hey, im wondering how you update programs. My mozilla said it was an old version. So i just typed emerge mozilla again and it gave me the same version. I also know i have an older version of gaim and wnat to update that to.
THanks

jsfan · Post by **jsfan** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:00 am

You have to do an

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emerge --sync

first to get the latest portage tree. Then

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emerge -u <packagename>

will update to the latest version (in your branch of Gentoo)

c0vert · Post by **c0vert** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:18 am

thanks!, what do you mean in your branch of gentoo?... and another quick question..> how can i add a user to the portage group? once i've already made the user that is

kmj0377 · Post by **kmj0377** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:22 am

c0vert wrote:thanks!, what do you mean in your branch of gentoo?... and another quick question..> how can i add a user to the portage group? once i've already made the user that is

There's two branches in portage, stable and testing (and other more bleeding edge ones if you go for third party ebuilds). These are specified through ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" for testing and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" for stable.

To add a user to a group:
gpasswd -a c0vert portage

c0vert · Post by **c0vert** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:24 am

thanks!

jsfan · Post by **jsfan** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:43 am

As long as you don't know too much about portage and ebuilds, it is better to stick with x86 because the likelihood is less that you will ever come across packages that won't compile. However, with a little bit of experience, I've never had many problems on my laptop using ~x86 (although faulty packages have screwed my system before!

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dyatel15 · Post by **dyatel15** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:41 am

Users should never use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86".

Go ahead and RTFM!
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly

jsfan · Post by **jsfan** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:10 am

Users should never use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86".

Go ahead and RTFM!
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly

This holds only true on a package to package basis. I use ~x86 for my whole system (i.e. this is what my /etc/make.conf sets). But I also use ~x86 on a package to package basis on some of my x86 systems. However, you should know exactly what you are doing then!!!

pussi · Post by **pussi** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:02 pm

dyatel15 wrote:Users should never use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86".

Go ahead and RTFM!
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly

That only means if you want ~x86 version of a specific package you should use /etc/portage/package.keywords instead of emerging it with:

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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge whaterver

That will mess up your system.
It's not incorrect to set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in /etc/make.conf (but you should really know what you're doing).

Besides, gentoo-wiki isn't actually a manual

dyatel15 · Post by **dyatel15** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:37 pm

pussi wrote:
Besides, gentoo-wiki isn't actually a manual

I presume he read an official manual already.
The correct link will be:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... t=3&chap=3
However it doesn't explain _why_ it's bad to use "accept_keywords emerge" for regular basis.
It doesn't explain that you can go to http://packages.gentoo.org and find all available versions, subscribe to RSS feed and follow updates.
It doesn't explain that you can install the latest version of eix package and have all overlays under your hand.
Oh boy, so many many things to learn

Mythril · Post by **Mythril** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:15 am

Anyway, using the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS flag on a package and then updating your system will most likely downgrade your package because this is not persistent...
/etc/portage/package.keywords should really be used for the long term.

Regarding the first question, you can also have gentoo automatically update your system with:

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emerge -NDuav world

Use this command whenever you change one of the /etc/portage/ files or when you update Portage (with the emerge --sync command).

c0vert · Post by **c0vert** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:11 am

yaa thats the one i was looking for, i remember it from last time now:)