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Install (emerge) app-portage/gentoolkit if you don't have it. This package include the utility revdep-rebuild, which we will need.
- Update the local portage tree
root# emerge --sync - Check for updates in the entire system.
root# emerge -pvuDN world
This is equivelant to
root# emerge --pretend --verbose --update --deep --newuse world - If you are ok to update the entire system, do
root# emerge -vuDN world
Otherwise, you can choose to update only the packages you want, by doing "emerge -v <package-name>" - Check if you have installed any masked packages in the file /etc/portage/package.keywords. Run "
emerge -pv <package-name>" to see if any of those packages have upgrades. If they do, upgrade them as you see fit. - Check for packages that are not associated with any explicitly merged packages:
root# emerge --depclean -pv - If you ok to let emerge to take care of clean out the deprecated packages, do
root# emerge --depclean
Otherwise you can remove the package one by one by doing "emerge -C package" - Fix the broken dependency by doing:
root# revdep-rebuild - Sometimes you may need to run revdep-rebuild a couple more time, till there is no more error.

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