Gentoo:gentoolkit

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gentoolkit is a handy package full of some useful commands for the gentooist.

[edit] Installing gentoolkit

Installing the collection of applications is very easy to do.

# emerge gentoolkit

[edit] Programs provided by gentoolkit

gentoolkit provides:

  • qpkg : A handy program to track down what file belongs to what package. [DEPRECATED]
  • equery : Replacement program for qpkg.
  • revdep-rebuild : Another program to track down any software dependencies that have been upset by updating packages.


[edit] Common uses

Locate the package that owns /usr/bin/xpdf:

equery b /usr/bin/xpdf

Rebuild any sickly binaries or libraries:

# revdep-rebuild

Note: revdep-rebuild stores some files in /root named .revdep*

See their man pages for further details.

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