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This is some documentation to install gentoo prefix for all users
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This is some documentation to install gentoo prefix for all users
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/dnkmmr69420/systemwide-gentoo-prefix-documentation
- Owner: dnkmmr69420
- Created: 2023-01-17T16:56:41.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-01-25T19:41:45.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-25T23:27:50.583Z (5 months ago)
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# system wide gentoo prefix installation documentation
Warning: this may not be 100% secure but you need to be running as the gentoo user to install packages into that directory. Suggest me ways to make this more secure if you can.
Here is some documentation to install gentoo prefix for all users
1. create a new user by typing this
```bash
sudo useradd -m -d /var/lib/gentoo gentoo
```
Only use the gentoo user for installing portage packages system wide. Never put personal files on the gentoo home directory.
2. set a password for the user gentoo. if user is not detected open up a new tab on the terminal
```bash
sudo passwd gentoo
```
## logging into the user gentoo
3. now log out and log into the user gentoo with the password that you have set up on step 3
4. now follow the steps on this [page](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix/Bootstrap)
Note: if gentoo fails to install, create an arch linux container by typing the following. doing this will require [distrobox](https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox) to be installed
## create an arch linux container
```bash
distrobox create -i archlinux:latest -n arch -p
```
install base-devel by typing this
```bash
sudo pacman -S base-devel
```
go to step 4
## post installation
5. make /var/lib/gentoo readable and executable by all users. Note: /var/lib/gentoo still stays read only for all users except root (root is able to do anything regardless of permissions) and the gentoo user
```bash
sudo chmod -R a+rx /var/lib/gentoo
```
## Usage
### running the user in the terminal
Enter as the gentoo user using this command to install packages or modify other things in the system wide gentoo prefix. Avoid running emerge as root. Emerge ran as root can do anything it wants to the host root file system unlike running it as the gentoo user. To enter as the gentoo user, run this
```bash
su gentoo
```
it should ask for your password. After it asks for your password, you should be running as that user in the terminal.
Want to link a command that was installed on the system wide gentoo for all users, type the following. htop will be used as an example. run as a user with regualr privleges.
```bash
sudo ln -s /var/lib/gentoo/gentoo/usr/bin/htop /usr/local/bin
```
After this, htop should be available for all users.
## Some optional extra steps
6. hide gentoo user from login screen. Make sure the user isn't running.
```bash
sudo usermod -u 900 gentoo
```
Note: the UID does not have to be 900. You can use any UID that is less than 1000 (1-999) and any UID that is not taken.
7. symlink emerge to ~/.local/bin for easier acess (while in the gentoo user)
```bash
ln -s ~/gentoo/usr/bin/emerge ~/.local/bin
```
if the bin folder doesn't exist type
```bash
mkdir ~/.local/bin
```
## uninstallation
Delete the gentoo directory
```bash
sudo rm -r /var/lib/gentoo
```
delete the gentoo user
```bash
sudo userdel gentoo
```