Just a few a days ago, I wrote a blog post about Pairing Bluetooth Mouse on Command Line on a Fedora laptop. So why do I need to write another post about doing the same thing on Gentoo? Well, as it turned out, I need a bit more than just turning on the bluetooth service and pairing the mouse. My Gentoo’s installation is very minimal, and I think this gives me an excuse to document on how I’d solve or get this working on Gentoo. ...
Let’s find out the name of the package using the awesome eix command, and install that package. ~ # eix usbguard * sys-apps/usbguard Available versions: ~0.7.6-r1 ~0.7.8 {bash-completion dbus ldap policykit static-libs systemd} Homepage: https://github.com/USBGuard/usbguard Description: Daemon protecting your computer against BadUSB ~ # emerge --ask sys-apps/usbguard These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-apps/usbguard" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - sys-apps/usbguard-0.7.8::gentoo (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) - sys-apps/usbguard-0.7.6-r1::gentoo (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. It looks like we need to unmask usbguard. ...
As the title says, I cannot use feh to open a PNG image. feh on this machine can’t open a JPG image either. Let’s see what’s wrong. I should notice that this problem occured on a machine running Gentoo. :D First, let’s check if feh is installed using my favorite tool called eix: ~ ❯❯❯ eix feh [I] media-gfx/feh Available versions: 3.1.1 ~3.1.3 ~3.2 ~3.2.1^t {curl debug exif test xinerama} Installed versions: 3.1.1(11:11:04 PM 04/14/2019)(-curl -debug -exif -test -xinerama) Homepage: https://feh.finalrewind.org/ Description: A fast, lightweight imageviewer using imlib2 According to the above information, feh:3.1.1 is already installed. It also mentions that feh use imlib2 library. ...