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ebuild

A low level interface to the Gentoo Portage system. More information: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Ebuild.
  • Create or update the package manifest:
    ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} manifest
  • Clean the temporary build directories for the build file:
    ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} clean
  • Fetch sources if they do not exist:
    ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} fetch
  • Extract the sources to a temporary build directory:
    ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} unpack
  • Compile the extracted sources:
    ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} compile
  • Install the package to a temporary install directory:
    ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} install
  • Install the temporary files to the live filesystem:
    ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} qmerge
  • Fetch, unpack, compile, install and qmerge the specified ebuild file:
    ebuild {{path/to/file.ebuild}} merge

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