Portato

Important: Portato does not work with current versions of portage. Hence I asked to remove it from Gentoo. I do not know, if I will ever make it work again. So please step up if you are interested in getting it running again.

Portato is a GUI for the package manager of Gentoo and Sabayon - Portage. It is mostly written in Python for the GTK+-frontend, which is used in most Linux desktop environments (except KDE).

As the current portage development is quite fast-paced, Portato is not able to keep step. Thus it might be that the released version(s) do not behave as expected. In these cases also try the development version.

» Current version

The current version of portato is 0.14.1 -- see the changelog for why you should consider updating. Note that versions older than the previous one (0.13.x) are not supported at all.

» Installation

Portato is delivered with the standard portage tree and can be installed using emerge portato. If you want to use the development version, you need to do the following (given you have installed and configured layman ... if not: see this guide):

layman -a portato
echo "=app-portage/portato-9999" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
echo "=app-portage/portato-9999" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge -av portato

» Translations

Portato does know about the so called Native Language Support. It currently supports the following languages: Catalan, English, Italian, German, Polish, Portugese, and Turkish.

If you want to add support for another language, please see the translation howto.

» Forums

This project itself does not have any forums. But there are a couple of threads in other forums:
If you are using Gentoo look into this forum thread (engl) or into the German one. If you are using Sabayon, use this one.

» Similar projects

Of course there are other projects too, which do the same or at least a similar job. These are for example:

• Himerge - a frontend written in Haskell (yeah ;P)
• Porthole - also written in Python and using GTK+. This frontend inspired me to do my own ;). I also suggest this one as the alternative if Portato does not work as expected.
• Kuroo - a frontend especially aimed for the KDE environment. (Development seems to have stopped)