Gentoo Tricks 
gentoo.org —
This tutorial describes how to print from a Gentoo-Linux computer to a printer, that is shared at a Windows XP system, using CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System)
Posted by
MarkusH 3 months ago
HowFlow —
Sollte man es aus irgendeinem Grund (wir reden lieber nicht darüber) geschafft haben, das für ein funktionierendes Gentoo-System essenzielle Paket binutils zu deinstallieren, dann sollte man diesem Trick folgen.
Posted by
aroedl 3 months ago
aroedl 3 months ago
gentoo-wiki.com —
A tutorial that shows you how to encrypt the entire hard drive with LUKS, partition it with LVM, and boot it from USB stick. All done manually, but it follows the KISS principle (tries to keep things as simple as possible). If you want a no-frills, do it yourself guide on how to encrypt your entire hard disk and boot it from an USB stick, this article may be of use to you.
Posted by
frostschutz 5 months ago
frostschutz 5 months ago
HowFlow —
You know that: you entered something like emerge kde-meta , let it compile over-night only to realize the next morning that one of the first packages stopped the whole show with an error message. This trick might be a relieve.
Posted by
aroedl 5 months ago
aroedl 5 months ago
HowFlow —
Tiny but handy trick to get the estimated merge time for packages which have never been installed before.
Posted by
aroedl 5 months ago
aroedl 5 months ago
HowFlow —
If you get the error message 'crti.o: No such file or directory' or something similar while you're installing Gentoo, here is the explaination.
Posted by
aroedl 5 months ago
aroedl 5 months ago
HowFlow —
If you like the bash tab-completion for files and directories, you might try out this trick to enable tab-completion for your portage tools (emerge, equery, revdep-rebuild, ...).
Posted by
aroedl 5 months ago
aroedl 5 months ago
livejournal.com —
This is a short howto about updating the intel processor microcode with gentoo.
Posted by
echo 5 months ago
HowFlow —
While installing Gentoo and doing an etc-update in between package updates, the error message "diff: %file1: No such file or directory" shows up. Here the "solution". Well, it's just a tiny trick.
Posted by
aroedl 6 months ago
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