Gentoo Linux has a superior portage system. In order to install software from portage, one must use the emerge command. It is recommended to update portage on a fairly regular basis by using the following commands:

  # emerge --sync
  # emerge --metadata

Users are also recommended to keep their installed Gentoo Linux packages up to date by running the following commands:

  # emerge --update world
  # emerge --update --deep world
  # etc-update

Whenever possible, this project uses the portage versions of the various software packages. When a portage version does not exist, or a better version is available from source, a source install will be performed and documented.

The following packages and all of their dependencies were installed via portage using the emerge command:

    •Arpwatch
    •Bison
    •Coldplug
    •Config_confd
    •DSniff
    •Emacs
    •Ethereal
    •Ettercap
    •Flagedit
    •Flex
    •Fping
    •Fragroute
    •GD
    •Gnome
    •Grub
    •GTK+
    •Gwhois
    •Hotplug
    •Hping
    •IPTraf
    •jpeg
    •Jwhois
    •Libnet
    •Libpcap
    •Libpcre
    •Libpng
    •Logrotate
    •Lynx
    •Man2Html
    •MON
    •MySQL
    •NBTScan
    •nmap
    •OpenSSL
    •P0F
    •PCIUtils
    •Profuse
    •Slocate
    •Sysklogd
    •TCPDump
    •Traceroute
    •Vixie-cron
    •Webmin
    •Whois
    •Zlib

Notes:

  Arpwatch can be started at boot by using the 
  following command 'rc-update add arpwatch default'.

  If you have to update Python, do an 'emerge --sync' followed by 'python-updater'.