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Is as simple as # eclean-dist -d will clean all distfiles wihc are older than currently installed. Eclean comes from package app-portage/gentoolkit and has couple other nice options -> read man. Tags: cleaning, distfiles, gentoo, portage

I tried set up a fresh install of gentoo under virtual box. Everything went smoothly with exception of error after entering credentials on kde logging screen. [   533.067] (EE) [drm] drmOpen failed. [   533.067] (EE) VBoxVideo(0): DRIScreenInit failed, disabling DRI. [   533.067] (II) VBoxVideo(0): visual configurations initialized [   533.068] (==) VBoxVideo(0): Backing store disabled [   [...]

Just a quick direction to program -> fdupes (on gentoo emerge fdupes -av) fdupes -r movies_dir1 movies_dir2 > duplicates.txt Above commands creates hashes of all files within specifies directories (-r recursive) and outputs that list to duplicates.txt. Now you can investigate that list and delete duplicates manualy. You can also tell fdupes to delete files [...]

Getting tired of using ftp to sync some resources. Clicking connect is very tiresome so.. emerge devfs2 -av groupadd -r davfs2 useradd davfs2 -g davfs2 If your webdav resource is secured edit /etc/davfs2/secrets and add simple line http://yourresurce/path user pass These are credentials to remote webdav. Try to mount drive from cmdline mount.davfs http://http://yourresurce/path /mnt/webdav/path [...]

This kind of message appeard on my maching after invoking glxinfo | grep -i direct Error was (at least I think so) caused by compiling nvidia-drivers against sources with slightly different version then running kernel (I forgot to update symlinc to kernel sources (eselect kernel)). The interesting part of it is that X sever started [...]

Peace of simple functionality I’ve been lacking for some time in dolphin was “send to ” option which would create an email with attached file(s) (many files). I have no idea why it does not exists “out of box” but there is quite simple way of adding this. This descriptions applies to KDE4. directory /usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus contains [...]

Have you ever  added users to a group and  they do not have access to the rights of that group until they login again? Instead of telling them to log out and login again (sounds like MS solution?) they can type: newgrp name_of_a_group For more details read man newgrp Tags: flush, linux, login out, new [...]

New version of portage adds support for licence acceptance for specific packages. sun-jdk requires now acceptance of dlj licence (in /usr/portage/licenses) If you do not want to get into more details simply add ACCEPT_LICENSE=”dlj-1.1″ to your /etc/make.conf You can also set this to ACCEPT_LICENSE=”*” but you won’t receive and error during installation of  licensed software. [...]

(Soprano::PluginManager) found no soprano plugin at  “/usr/lib64/soprano/libsoprano_sesame2backend.so” Failed to create memory model First guessed solution works: emerge soprano -av

Proper firefox installation should create symlinks in $HOME/.mozilla/plugins directory. You should find there libflashplayer.so or valid symlink to libflashplayer.so 1. Make sure you have www-plugins/adobe-flash installed 2. cd $HOME/.mozilla/plugins ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so And that’s it.. in my case I didn’t even had to restart browser. One may ask why creating symlink to other symlink. This [...]