Elementary OS experience for Gentoo

Installing the overlay

To install this overlay using Portage's built-in repos.conf mechanism, be sure the repos.conf directory exists:

mkdir -p /etc/portage/repos.conf

Then get the elementary.conf file from the base of this repository:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pimvullers/elementary/master/elementary.conf -O /etc/portage/repos.conf/elementary.conf

Finallty use emaint to sync the repo:

emaint sync -r elementary

To install this overlay using eselect (app-eselect/eselect-repository) run the following command:

eselect repository enable elementary

Then use emaint to sync the repo:

emaint sync -r elementary

To install this overlay using Layman (app-portage/layman) run the following command:

layman -a elementary

To keep your checkout of the elementary overlay up-to-date run:

layman -s elementary

Alternatively, to update all overlays managed by layman run:

layman -S

Just install the meta package to pull in all required packages (you can tweak using USE flags):

emerge -va pantheon-meta

For installation issues, and Gentoo integration problems, please use this repository's issues page.

For other issues, please report them in the upstream repositories.