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Enter a command. For example: btrbk, homectl, lastb, dget, megatools dl.

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