Updating the Portage Tree
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Sync the Portage tree using the mirrors by fetching the latest differences |
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Sync the Portage tree using the mirrors by obtaining a Portage snapshot that is at most a day old |
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Sync the overlay and Portage tree using eix |
Searching for Software
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Search for all packages who have "pdf" in their name |
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Search through the descriptions as well |
Installing Software
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List what packages would be installed without installing them |
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Install a specific version of a package |
Upgrade
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Upgrade the selected packages, dependencies and deep dependencies that are outdated or have USE flag changes |
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Update all packages explicitly installed, as well as their dependencies and their build dependencies, asking to proceed |
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Like above, except changes to |
Removing Software
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Remove a package and the dependencies that no other packages depend on |
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Remove a package but not its dependencies |
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Remove unneeded dependencies |