How To Install gentoo on Fedora 34

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install gentoo

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install gentoo

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is gentoo and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install gentoo on Fedora 34. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install gentoo on Fedora 34 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install gentoo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gentoo

Install gentoo on Fedora 34 using yum

Because gentoo is available in Fedora 34’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install gentoo package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gentoo

How to upgrade (update) a single package gentoo using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like gentoo in this example you should use the following command:

yum update gentoo

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade gentoo

How to Upgrade gentoo on Fedora 34 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update gentoo

How To remove gentoo from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the gentoo package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove gentoo

Extra info and code examples

gentoo is a two-pane file manager for the X Window System. gentoo lets the user do (almost) all of the configuration and customizing from within the program itself. If you still prefer to hand-edit configuration files, they're fairly easy to work with since they are written in an XML format. gentoo features a fairly complex and powerful file identification system, coupled to an object-oriented style system, which together give you a lot of control over how files of different types are displayed and acted upon. Additionally, over a hundred pixmap images are available for use in file type descriptions. gentoo was written from scratch in ANSI C, and it utilizes the GTK+ toolkit for its interface.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install gentoo using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the gentoo from Fedora 34.

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