• How to update your Gentoo

Posted: **Tue Feb 09, 2016 6:16 pm**

Source:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Cheat_Sheet

Sync the Portage tree using the mirrors by fetching the latest differences:
root # emerge --sync

Upgrade all installed packages:
root #

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emerge -pvuDUN --with-bdeps=y --changed-deps @world @system

and then root #

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emerge -quDUN --with-bdeps=y --changed-deps @world @system

Alt. use tmux:
tmux new-session -d 'emerge -quUND --with-bdeps=y --changed-deps @world @system'

After updating perl-core packages:
root # perl-cleaner --all