Gentoo Portage makes it fairly easy to update all the installed packages on your system. The emerge and revdep-rebuild tools are powerful and make the process of recompiling everything much less painful than it sounds. The emerge and revdep-rebuild commands require root privileges so switch to root or use sudo. The first step is to [...]

By default when you emerge a long list of packages in Gentoo you have to download each package completely before the build process can begin. This can be a large bottleneck, especially if your internet connection is not very fast. Luckily Portage has a great solution. Go to the file /etc/make.conf and add “parallel-fetch” to [...]