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#General Gentoo maintainance
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## Checking for updates
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Sync with Gentoo's servers, and then see what updates there are:
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`emerge --sync && emerge -pv --update world`
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To install available updates:
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`emerge --update world`
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## Starting / Restarting Services
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Gentoo services have init files in the `/etc/init.d/` directory.
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* To start a service:
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`/etc/init.d/[service] start`
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* To restart a service:
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`/etc/init.d/[service] restart`
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* To stop a service:
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`/etc/init.d/[service] stop`
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* Common services
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`mysqld` - mysql
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`php-fpm` - php with fpm
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`lighttpd` - lighttpd web server
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## Installing software
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Generally, all there is to installing addtional software is
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`emerge [software]`
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But sometimes you don't know the package name, or if it exists, so you want to search:
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`emerge --search [software]`
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And it's a good idea to see what packages will be installed, without actually installing it
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`emerge -pv [software]`
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* If the sofware you are trying to install is masked, you can add the software to the `package.keywords` file in `/etc/portage/`. If the file doesn't exist, you can create it.
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Each package added to the file looks like this:
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`[category]/[software] ~amd64` or if you are using a 32-bit version, `[category]/[software] ~x86`
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* If the software doesn't have the `USE` settings it needs, for example if php doesn't have mysql support, you can add these to the `package.use` file in `/etc/portage` :
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`dev-lang/php mysql`
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