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Install Tesseract with German language support in Gentoo

I needed to scan some German text documents and wanted to convert them to actual text. I came across Tesseract, “the industry-standard free, open-source Optical Character Recognition engine”, according to its website.

I installed the software and tried to convert my scanned document with an adapted default command I found on the program’s website ...

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Gentoo: fix “no such command: `fmt`” error

If you installed Rust on Gentoo without any additional steps and run cargo fmt in your project folder, you propably encounter the following error:

error: no such command: `fmt`

help: a command with a similar name exists: `fix`

help: view all installed commands with `cargo --list`
help: find a package to install `fmt` with `cargo ...
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Gentoo: Migrate from systemd-utils[udev] to eudev

Update: Unfortunately, eudev has been removed from Gentoo because it isn’t maintained anymore. Switching to eudev is not possible anymore.


While eudev has been abandoned by the Gentoo maintainers in 2021, it has been picked up again by Alpine, Devuan and Gentoo contributors as an independent project. You can rather easily switch back to eudev, if you wish ...