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Mirror (computing)Web mirror|mirrors]]. New and updated ebuilds can be obtained by synchronizing the local ebuild repository with the mirrors. This is done by executing the command <tt>emerge --sync</tt>. Historically, Gentoo has provided pre-compiled binary packages for many common programs, especially those which are lengthy to compile, such as [[Mozilla Firefox]] and [[OpenOffice.org]]. These are still installed with emerge, just by appending a "-bin" to the package name to instead install the binary version.
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{{Linux package management systems}}

[[Category:Gentoo Linux]]
[[Category:Free package management systems]]
[[Category:Linux package management-related software]]
[[Category:Linux-only software]]
[[Category:Free software programmed in Python]]