Portage

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Portage is the package management system for Gentoo. It consists of two main components: Emerge and Ebuilds.

[edit] Emerge

Emerge is a command-line tool that does dependency checking and installs Ebuilds.

[edit] Ebuilds

Ebuilds is a system of installing software from source.

[edit] External links

• Gentoo Portage Features
• Gentoo Portage Introduction
• Working with Portage
• unofficial informative portage howto/guide
• Gentoo-Portage
• Installing portage on other Linux distros
• Emerde, portage-like project for Slackware

Package management systems
Portage | dpkg | RPM | Pacman | Smart Package Manager | tgz | Conary | pkgsrc | DEB