Installing USBGuard 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. ...

June 29, 2020 · 3 min · 573 words · kenno