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 frustrations > with Ubuntu because it could be a pain to get newer versions of packages > installed. For example Ubuntu defaulted to Apache 1.x for mod_mono. > > 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 only going to install mysql 4.x. I did > find out about ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" which has helped with getting more > recent versions of software installed. > > I am looking for any good links, tips, suggestions of admin software to > emerge, etc to help me learn the ins-and-outs of Gentoo. I have tons of > questions but don't know where to look. Well, I can google but that > takes ages and I was hoping many of you on this list will have a nice > set of bookmarks on gentoo admin, handy gentoo software, tips etc. > > Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on > Gentoo: > > See list of all *installed* software.
best done in kuroo ;) > Browse available software that can be installed. best done in kuroo, too. > See what version of a particular software package is installed. emerge -s or emerge -S > See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. > ... emerge -u, emerge -s or emerge -S -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
