ebuild Command Examples

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