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 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: >
Welcome to Gentoo... I'm sure you will find it much easier to maintain then Fedora or Ubuntu, especially if you need newer packages. If you have any questions I would suggest you google them first, for example if you want to learn how to setup Samba on Gentoo I would google for "Gentoo samba" if you do a query like that the best pages are usually in the top 2 or 3 results. There are some excellent docs sites too... my favorites are: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Main_Page http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml Regarding the specific questions you have... > See list of all *installed* software. > See what version of a particular software package is installed. > See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. emerge gentoolkit and read the man page for equery it does all of this stuff for you. I would also encourage you to read up on emerge as it is a very powerful tool for all things Portage. > Browse available software that can be installed. You can do this with emerge -s <packagename> but IMO to get any really useful information check out http://www.gentoo-portage.com or http://packages.gentoo.org. Also if you need something that is exotic and not in Portage yet you can check out http://bugs.gentoo.org and search for an ebuild or write one yourself. -Mike -- ________________________________ Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
