Sabayon Linux

Sabayon is a beginner-friendly Gentoo-based open-source Linux distribution.

Gnome Desktop

Changing The Default Application For A File Type

Sabayon has PDF files open in the GIMP by default, which is not great. You can change this...

• Open Nautilus file browser.
• Find the file you wish to change.
• Right-mouse-click on the file and choose 'Properties'.
• Click the 'Open With' tab.
• Change the application to Document Viewer, and then Close.

Package Management

How To Install Software

Sabayon has several ways to install packages, either via the command line or a graphical tool.

Command Line

Entropy

equo update
equo --version
equo search <package name>
equo install <package name> --ask

Emerge

emerge --sync
emerge --ask --verbose <package-name>

Graphical Tools

"Eh? What's a graphical installation tool? I'm using Gentoo mate..."

Layman

Fixing Overlay Errors

Delete then recreate the 'sabayon' overlay. You have to install the package 'git' first...

emerge dev-util/git
layman -d sabayon
layman -a sabayon
layman -S
update-eix

Hamachi VPN - Fix broken libcrypto Error

After updating to openssl version 0.9.8 you will not be able to run the Hamachi VPN software - it complains about a missing library file called libcrypto.so.0.9.7.

To fix this, simply create a symbolic link to the current libcrypto file with the right name...

su - root
cd /usr/lib/
ln -s libcrypto.so.0.9.8 libcrypto.so.0.9.7
ldconfig -v