Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:23:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: I knew how to do it but I thought it would return a lot of hits from anything containing the letter q. Later on when I had a little bit of time to sit here, I tried it. It only returned the one result. Still sort of surprised

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 12 October 2009 11:11:06 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:23:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: I knew how to do it but I thought it would return a lot of hits from anything containing the letter q. Later on when I had a little bit of time to sit here, I tried it. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-12 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:23:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: I knew how to do it but I thought it would return a lot of hits from anything containing the letter q. Later on when I had a little bit of time to sit here, I tried it. It only returned the one result. Still

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Montag, 12. Oktober 2009 schrieb Dale: Interesting. I tried it just out of interest and I got two: $ equery b q [ Searching for file(s) q in *... ] app-portage/portage-utils-0.1.29 (/usr/bin/q) sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2 (/usr/share/terminfo/q) $ Hmmm, two apparently different

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-11 Thread Dale
Jonathan Callen wrote: Dale wrote: I would urge you to check into the q command and equery. I !think! the q command is part of portage. It may be part of gentoolkit tho. Just the q command has more than a dozen different things it does. equery can do a lot too but some say it has some

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-11 Thread James Ausmus
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Jonathan Callen wrote: Dale wrote: I would urge you to check into the q command and equery. I !think! the q command is part of portage. It may be part of gentoolkit tho. Just the q command has more than a dozen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-11 Thread Dale
James Ausmus wrote: On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Jonathan Callen wrote: Dale wrote: I would urge you to check into the q command and equery. I !think! the q command is part of portage. It may be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 09:25 -0700, James Ausmus wrote: When you forget which package a command (or any random file) belongs to, a great way to figure it out would be: equery belongs $(which q) Or use 'q' to find itself: $ q file `which q` app-portage/portage-utils (/usr/bin/q)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:29:19 Dale wrote: equery belongs $(which q) ;) -James Dale :-) :-) I knew how to do it but I thought it would return a lot of hits from anything containing the letter q. Later on when I had a little bit of time to sit here, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:30:30 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 09:25 -0700, James Ausmus wrote: When you forget which package a command (or any random file) belongs to, a great way to figure it out would be: equery belongs $(which q) Or use 'q' to find itself: $ q

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-11 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 11 October 2009 19:29:19 Dale wrote: equery belongs $(which q) ;) -James Dale :-) :-) I knew how to do it but I thought it would return a lot of hits from anything containing the letter q. Later on when I had a little bit of

[gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-10 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: I would urge you to check into the q command and equery. I !think! the q command is part of portage. It may be part of gentoolkit tho. Just the q command has more than a dozen different things it does. equery can do a lot too but

[gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Zhengquan Zhang zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com writes: 2009/10/9 Justin jus...@j-schmitz.net: Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Hi, Gentoo users, I am new to gentoo and am wondering if there is a command to show where a package is installed? which file is installed in which directory? Thanks a lot,

[gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

2009-10-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Hi, Gentoo users, I am new to gentoo and am wondering if there is a command to show where a package is installed? which file is installed in which directory? Thanks a lot, I'm not sure this is what you are talking about but