Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-04-06 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 06 April 2006 07:41, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Bo Andresen wrote: > > Heh.. this one is better ;) : > > # cat /var/lib/portage/world | awk -F\/ '{system("eix -F -C "$1" -e "$2" > > -c | head -n 1")}' > > Nah, it's NOT, because of the "Useless Use Of Cat". Even > better: > > awk -F\/ '{sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-04-05 Thread Alexander Skwar
Bo Andresen wrote: Heh.. this one is better ;) : # cat /var/lib/portage/world | awk -F\/ '{system("eix -F -C "$1" -e "$2" -c | head -n 1")}' Nah, it's NOT, because of the "Useless Use Of Cat". Even better: awk -F\/ '{system("eix -F -C "$1" -e "$2" -c | head -n 1")}' < /var/lib/portage/world

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-04-05 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 09 March 2006 23:50, Bo Andresen wrote: > In /var/lib/portage/world there is a list of all of all software that you > have explicitly installed. The rest of what is installed should be > depencies of packages in the world file. So to get a list of packages that > I installed I would use

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bo Andresen wrote: > > HtH Thanks Bo, that what what I was looking for. Thanks to everyone else as well. I will know have a long and fun night of playing in Gentoo : ) Jim -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment:

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 09 March 2006 20:16, Jim wrote: > I have now been using Gentoo for a few days and I am running into some > issues I hope this group can help with. At first emerge was trying to > merge some really old packages. For example I wanted mysql 5.x, php 5.x > and Apache 2.x and Gentoo was on

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread wieseltux23
www.wolfspakt.de/spiel.php?id=7358 On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:50:51 -0500 Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mantas Povilaitis wrote: > > On 3/9/06, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hey group, > >> > >> > > snip > > > >> Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Thursday 09 March 2006 21:50, Jim wrote: > > > > For these tasks I use Kuroo (for KDE, http://tux.myftp.org/). > > I know where is something similar for GNOME too. > > What would be the Gnome equivalent? I use and prefer Gnome :) > > Jim porthole is gtk based, its my pick despite it happens to

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
Mantas Povilaitis wrote: On 3/9/06, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey group, snip Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: See list of all *installed* software. Browse available software that can be installed. See what v

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/9/06, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey group, > > I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red > Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last > year I have been using Ubuntu. > > I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frust

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/9/06, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey group, > > I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red > Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last > year I have been using Ubuntu. > > I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frust

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 09 March 2006 20:16, Jim wrote: > Hey group, > > I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red > Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last > year I have been using Ubuntu. > > I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had fru

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Mantas Povilaitis
On 3/9/06, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey group, > snip > > Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on > Gentoo: > > See list of all *installed* software. > Browse available software that can be installed. > See what version of a particular software package is ins

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Christoph Eckert
> See list of all *installed* software. epm -ql > Browse available software that can be installed. I use packages.gentoo.org > See what version of a particular software package is installed. epm -ql | grep packagename > See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. emerge -

[gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
Hey group, I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last year I have been using Ubuntu. I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frustrations with Ubuntu because it could be a pain to get