This website is a search engine for packages in the public repositories (main tree, plus overlays) of Gentoo Linux.
It also provides mirroring (http, rsync) for all the tracked files.
If it's your first visit, you might be interested in getting some information at the bottom of this page.
The search uses (PCRE, case insensitive) regular expressions. If you need help with that, you can consult this information page.
Today (2009-11-07), I can count 19973 unique packages in the database (43087 including the different versions for packages)
(2009-07-18) : update, after a server reboot, I forgot to mount the cache directory so the DB did not contain a lot...
Some fixes, and preliminary support for internationalization of package and category descriptions... however, since nothing is filled, I keep on using only english.
(2008-12-13) : g.z.o is 1 years old !
I'm updating some stuff (repository links, installation of mercurial, which was preventing some overlays to work) as I put this note.
| Category | Description |
| app-accessibility | The app-accessibility category contains packages which help with accessibility (for example, screen readers). |
| app-admin | The app-admin category contains non-core applications which relate to system administration. |
| app-antivirus | The app-antivirus category contains antivirus software. |
| app-arch | The app-arch category contains tools for archiving, compressing and uncompressing files or groups of files. |
| app-backup | The app-backup category contains tools for performing backups of data, including both full and incremental backups, as well as backups to other media (CD-R, Tape, etc.). |
| app-benchmarks | The app-benchmarks category contains benchmarking software. |
| app-cdr | The app-cdr category contains software for writing CDs and DVDs, and for working with .iso files. |
| app-crypt | The app-crypt category contains cryptographic (encryption, decryption, steganography and signing) software. |
| app-dicts | The app-dicts category contains dictionary and word-list packages. |
| app-doc | The app-doc category contains various miscellaneous documentation collections. |
| app-editors | The app-editors category contains text editors. |
| app-emacs | The app-emacs category contains extension packages for the Emacs text editor. |
| app-emulation | The app-emulation category contains emulation software. |
| app-forensics | The app-forensics category contains software which helps detect and analyse security breaches. |
| app-i18n | The app-i18n category contains internationalisation-related packages. |
| app-laptop | The app-laptop category contains packages which are designed to work with certain kinds of laptop or notebook computer. |
| app-misc | The app-misc category contains various miscellaneous application packages which don't belong anywhere else. |
| app-mobilephone | The app-mobilephone category contains software for working with mobile phones. |
| app-office | The app-office category contains 'office' (word processing, spreadsheets, presentation) software packages. |
| app-pda | The app-pda category contains software for working with personal digital assistants or hand-held computers. |
| app-portage | The app-portage category contains software which works with portage or ebuilds. |
| app-shells | The app-shells category contains shells and their extensions. |
| app-text | The app-text category contains tools for working with human-language text files. |
| app-vim | The app-vim category contains plugins, syntax file and spelling packages for the Vim text editor. |
| app-xemacs | The app-xemacs category contains extensions for the XEmacs text editor. |
| dev-ada | The dev-ada category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the Ada programming language. |
| dev-cpp | The dev-cpp category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the c++ programming language. |
| dev-db | The dev-db category contains libraries and utilities for database related programming. |
| dev-dotnet | The dev-dotnet category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the .NET programming environment. |
| dev-embedded | The dev-embedded category contains libraries and utilities relevant to embedded programming. |
| dev-games | The dev-games category contains libraries and utilities relevant to games programming. |
| dev-haskell | The dev-haskell category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the Haskell programming language. |
| dev-java | The dev-java category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the Java programming language. |
| dev-lang | The dev-lang category contains various programming language implementations and related tools. |
| dev-libs | The dev-libs category contains various miscellaneous programming libraries. |
| dev-lisp | The dev-lisp category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the Lisp programming language. |
| dev-ml | The dev-ml category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the ML programming language. |
| dev-perl | The dev-perl category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the Perl programming language. |
| dev-php | The dev-php category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the PHP programming language. |
| dev-php5 | The dev-php5 category contains libraries, utilities and PECL packages only for version 5 of the PHP programming language. |
| dev-python | The dev-python category contains libraries, utilities or bindings written in or for the Python programming language. |
| dev-ruby | The dev-ruby category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the Ruby programming language. |
| dev-scheme | The dev-scheme category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the Scheme programming language. |
| dev-tcltk | The dev-tcltk category contains Tcl- and Tk-related libraries and tools. |
| dev-tex | The dev-tex category contains libraries and tools useful when working with TeX and TeX-based environments such as LaTeX. |
| dev-texlive | The dev-texlive category contains various TeXLive's packages. |
| dev-tinyos | The dev-tinyos category contains libraries and utilities of the TinyOS operating system for embedded wireless sensor networks. |
| dev-util | The dev-util category contains various miscellaneous development utilities. |
| games-action | The games-action category contains action games. |
| games-arcade | The games-arcade category contains arcade games. |
| games-board | The games-board category contains board games. |
| games-emulation | The games-emulation category contains game platform emulators. |
| games-engines | The games-engines category contains game engines. |
| games-fps | The games-fps category contains first person shooter games. |
| games-kids | The games-kids category contains games designed for children. |
| games-misc | The games-misc category contains miscellaneous games which do not fit into other games- categories. |
| games-mud | The games-mud category contains multi-user dungeon games. |
| games-puzzle | The games-puzzle category contains puzzle games. |
| games-roguelike | The games-roguelike category contains games which resemble Rogue's style. |
| games-rpg | The games-rpg category contains role-playing games. |
| games-server | The games-server category contains game servers. |
| games-simulation | The games-simulation category contains simulation games. |
| games-sports | The games-sports category contains sports games. |
| games-strategy | The games-strategy category contains strategy games. |
| games-util | The games-util category contains various game-related utilities. |
| gnome-base | The gnome-base category contains core GNOME packages. |
| gnome-extra | The gnome-extra category contains additional non-core GNOME packages. |
| gnustep-apps | The gnustep-apps category contains GNUstep applications. |
| gnustep-base | The gnustep-base category contains GNUstep base packages. |
| gnustep-libs | The gnustep-libs category contains GNUstep libraries. |
| java-virtuals | The java-virtuals category contains packages which satisfy virtual dependencies. These virtuals install a file which is used by the java-config system to provide information like classpath and minimum required vm values. |
| kde-base | The kde-base category contains core KDE packages. |
| kde-misc | The kde-misc category contains various miscellaneous KDE packages. |
| mail-client | The mail-client category contains email clients. |
| mail-filter | The mail-filter category contains email filtering software. |
| mail-mta | The mail-mta category contains mail transport agent packages. |
| media-fonts | The media-fonts category contains fonts. |
| media-gfx | The media-gfx category contains graphics-related packages. |
| media-libs | The media-libs category contains media-related libraries. |
| media-plugins | The media-plugins category contains plugin packages for various media applications. |
| media-radio | The media-radio category contains radio-related media applications. |
| media-sound | The media-sound category contains sound, music and audio applications. |
| media-tv | The media-tv category contains television-related applications. |
| media-video | The media-video category contains video-related applications. |
| net-analyzer | The net-analyzer category contains network analysis software. |
| net-dialup | The net-dialup category contains dialup-related networking software. |
| net-dns | The net-dns category contains DNS (Domain Name Service) related software. |
| net-firewall | The net-firewall category contains network firewall software. |
| net-fs | The net-fs category contains network filesystem packages. |
| net-ftp | The net-ftp contains FTP (File Transfer Protocol) software. |
| net-im | The net-im category contains instant messaging software. |
| net-irc | The net-irc category contains IRC (Internet Relay Chat) clients and servers. |
| net-libs | The net-libs category contains libraries that are network-related. |
| net-mail | The net-mail category contains various email-related utilities. |
| net-misc | The net-misc category contains various miscellaneous networking tools and utilities. |
| net-nds | The net-nds category contains NDS (NetWare Directory Services) software. |
| net-news | The net-news category contains news-related network software. |
| net-nntp | The net-nntp category contains NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) software. |
| net-p2p | The net-p2p category contains peer-to-peer networking applications. |
| net-print | The net-print category contains network printing packages. |
| net-proxy | The net-proxy category contains network proxy software. |
| net-voip | The net-voip category contains packages related to Voice-over-IP |
| net-wireless | The net-wireless category contains wireless networking software and utilities. |
| net-www | The net-www category contains various WWW clients that have not yet moved into www- categories. |
| net-zope | The net-zope category contains all Zope (zope.org) related software including third party products and tools. |
| perl-core | The perl-core category contains libraries and utilities relevant to the Perl programming language. |
| rox-base | The rox-base category contains core Rox packages. |
| rox-extra | The rox-extra category contains extra non-core Rox packages. |
| sci-astronomy | The sci-astronomy category contains software that can be used in astronomical and related scientific environments. |
| sci-biology | The sci-biology category contains software that can be used in biological and related scientific environments. |
| sci-calculators | The sci-calculators category contains scientific calculator packages. |
| sci-chemistry | The sci-chemistry category contains software that can be used in chemistral scientific environments. |
| sci-electronics | The sci-electronics category contains electronics packages. |
| sci-geosciences | The sci-geosciences category contains geosciences-related software. |
| sci-libs | The sci-libs category contains various science-related libraries. |
| sci-mathematics | The sci-mathematics category contains mathematical software. |
| sci-misc | The sci-misc category contains various miscellaneous science applications which do not fit any other sci-* category. |
| sci-physics | The sci-physics category contains physics related software. |
| sci-visualization | The sci-visualization category contains scientific visualization applications. |
| sec-policy | The sec-policy category contains security policies for access control systems such as SELinux. |
| sys-apps | The sys-apps category contains various core system applications, and some non-core system applications which have not yet been moved out into other sys- categories. |
| sys-auth | The sys-auth category contains applications and libraries to support authentication and authorization facilities. Here belongs PAM modules, NSS modules and login apps. |
| sys-block | The sys-block category contains packages which work with block devices. |
| sys-boot | The sys-boot category contains bootloaders and related tools. |
| sys-cluster | The sys-cluster category contains cluster-related software. |
| sys-devel | The sys-devel category contains various core system development tools and libraries. |
| sys-freebsd | Ebuilds for the Gentoo/FreeBSD base system software. |
| sys-fs | The sys-fs category contains filesystem tools and utilities. |
| sys-kernel | The sys-kernel category contains kernel source ebuilds and kernel-related tools. |
| sys-libs | The sys-libs category contains various system-level libraries. |
| sys-power | The sys-power category contains software which handles power management, including CPU frequency scaling tools. |
| sys-process | The sys-process category contains packages which query or manipulate processes. The 'cron' daemons are included in this. |
| www-apache | The www-apache category contains modules for the Apache webserver. |
| www-apps | The www-apps category contains various world wide web applications. |
| www-client | The www-client category contains world wide web clients. |
| www-misc | The www-misc category contains various miscellaneous world wide web software. |
| www-servers | The www-servers category contains web server packages. |
| x11-apps | x11-apps contains applications distributed as part of X.Org X11. |
| x11-base | The x11-base category contains various X11 base implementations. |
| x11-drivers | x11-drivers contain drivers that interface with the core X11 server. |
| x11-libs | The x11-libs category contains various X11-related libraries. |
| x11-misc | The x11-misc category contains miscellaneous X11 applications which do not belong elsewhere. |
| x11-plugins | The x11-plugins category contains plugin packages for various X11 applications. |
| x11-proto | x11-proto contains the X11 protocol headers. |
| x11-terms | The x11-terms category contains terminal emulators for X11 environments. |
| x11-themes | The x11-themes category contains various theme and style packages for X11 applications. |
| x11-wm | The x11-wm category contains X11 window managers. |
| xfce-base | The xfce-base category contains base XFCE packages. |
| xfce-extra | The xfce-extra category contains non-core XFCE applications. |
If you have trouble with any of the software, please consult their homepage and report bugs.
It's very important and helpful for anyone.
If your problem happens on the installation of a package, you can consult check the repository homepage or contact information.
For instance, the Gentoo main tree has a bug tracker at bugs.gentoo.org.
Sometimes, you want features that you know are provided by an in-development version of a program, and are accessed using revision control software.
Packages with the "9999" version use RCS to fetch the latest version of the software.
When you emerge one of them, you have to keep in mind that you won't be bugged of updates when you sync your repositories information.
Such packages can be tracked with the command find /var/db/pkg/ -regex ".*9999$"
Some overlay have -scm versions, you can use these packages if you use the Paludis package manager.
Paludis will re-install scm (and 9999) versions periodically, if asked to do so.
Like the famous packages.gentoo.org, the goal is to list and enable the search of the packages available through emerge, but this indexer also tries to include the information of every overlay listed on the public gentoo overlays.
The gentoo overlays contain a lot of unstable packages but also a lot of useful packages.
The site was created on the 2007-12-13 (or something like that).
This website was created following the observation that it's hard to find packages, especially when they are not in the main gentoo repository.
If you seek something prettier for packages browsing, have a look at http://gpo.zugaina.org/, which is a customization of the pretty gentoo-portage.com and existed before mine, but I was not aware of that.
You also have the in-development ebuildfind.
I made this site from scratch with the objective of having a simple, ad-free, fast and powerful search engine and packages catalog.
This site provides searchplugins for Mozilla Firefox (search by description, reverse dependencies) and it's not too hard to make other browsers search with this site.
It's also made to ease referring from wiki pages, with interwiki. Just look at the adress bar when browsing a category/package..
TODO : If you can think of an useful functionality you want in here, tell me. A good place for this is in the wiki or in this forum thread .
This site is a community site, it was made to help Gentoo users but is not officially supported ; it is not part of the Gentoo project.
As you can see, the website does not closely mimic the name or layout of one of Gentoo official websites.
Or, actually, any website ;)
The name "Gentoo" is a trademark of Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
The "g" logo (favicon) is a trademark of Gentoo Foundation, Inc.
This site is an indexer, it contains data from the Gentoo ebuilds.
I have written none of them.
This website is provided "as-is".
Gentoo rox.
Contributors :
Before being on a dedicated server, the website was hosted on the ASRM (Association Rezo de Supelec Metz) web server.
Misc :