Emerge System Utilities

Installing Gentoo - Emerge System Utilities

Now that your make.conf file is ready to go, you can emerge some of the utilities necessary for every Linux system.

Before we begin, we'll need to emerge the kernel sources. This is because some of the packages we'll be installing will need to access the kernel source directory.

# emerge -av gentoo-sources

Here is a brief description of what we are installing and what they do.

sys-apps/pciutils: A diagnostic utility, used to identify the hardware components in your system.

app-portage/gentoolkit: A collection of useful tools for portage, such as revdep-rebuild.

app-admin/syslog-ng: A system logger, which records your system events to the file /var/log/messages.

sys-process/vixie-cron: A cron daemon, used for scheduling tasks. This is the Linux equivalent of the Windows Task Scheduler.

net-misc/dhcpcd: A DHCP client, capable of interfacing with your network hardware.

net-misc/openssh: An ssh daemon, allowing you to connect to your system remotely over a network connection.

net-misc/ntp: A network time protocol daemon, ensuring your system time is accurate.

sys-fs/ntfs3g: Utilities in order to read devices containing data formatted with Microsoft's NTFS filesystem.

net-fs/mount-cifs: Utilities in order to mount Microsoft Windows based network shares.

# emerge -av pciutils gentoolkit syslog-ng vixie-cron dhcpcd openssh ntp ntfs3g mount-cifs

Once the emerge has completed, you can move on to Configure System Services.