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Unity Desktop on Gentoo

Instructions

Run as root

layman -a unity-gentoo
layman -S

Then select the vivid unity-gentoo profile:

# eselect profile list 
Available profile symlink targets: 
  [1]   default/linux/amd64/13.0 
  [2]   default/linux/amd64/13.0/selinux 
  [3]   default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop 
  [4]   default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome 
  [5]   default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd 
  [6]   default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde 
  [7]   default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd 
  [8]   default/linux/amd64/13.0/developer 
  [9]   default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib 
  [10]  default/linux/amd64/13.0/x32 
  [11]  hardened/linux/amd64 
  [12]  hardened/linux/amd64/selinux 
  [13]  hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib 
  [14]  hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib/selinux 
  [15]  hardened/linux/amd64/x32 
  [16]  hardened/linux/uclibc/amd64 
  [17]  hardened/linux/musl/amd64 
  [18]  unity-gentoo:vivid/amd64 * 
  [19]  unity-gentoo:utopic/amd64 

When that is complete run the following to setup the correct package masking.

emerge -aqv unity-build-env

When that is complete run

emerge -uDNvta unity-meta

Thanks to many on Gentoo forums

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