Updating - Emerge

**brill01** · 06-03-2005

Hello Guys,

One more question. To do an update I need to do:

emerge.sh right? will that do updates and such then just have it reboot? please can you advise on how to do this please. Thanks!

under root I was thinking :

emerge.sh ? or?

**budman7** · 06-03-2005

Are you talking about updating the portage tree?
If so, use

emerge --sync

For more info on emerge, do

man emerge

**jaboua** · 06-03-2005

If you meant updating the system, first sync like budman7 described, then update like this (as root ofcourse):

Code:

emerge -NuD world

If you need something as a reminder of the command just think "emerge... nude... no 'e'...", it works for me

**budman7** · 06-03-2005

If you need something as a reminder of the command just think "emerge... nude... no 'e'...", it works for me Laughing

hmm emerge nude *
I will definitely need more ram :P

**brill01** · 06-03-2005

I was talking about emege for the system softs ( thank you for all your kind help guys ) Its greatly thanked.

Thanks!!

P.S: Should I reboot after its done with all the updates?

**budman7** · 06-03-2005

No reboot necessary, you might have to run /sbin/ldconfig if somethings don'tget updated.

**brill01** · 06-03-2005

what does:

/sbin/ldconfig do?

Best Regards,
Brill

**budman7** · 06-03-2005

Sometimes when you emerge things, they don't show up in the menus, you can run /sbin/ldconfig and they should show up.

**serz** · 06-03-2005

ldconfig is used for updating the libraries in the system so the programs can find them. It's good to run this if you've installed new libraries.

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