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\/ '{system(eix -F -C $1

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

2006-04-05 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 Alexander

[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

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

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 installed.

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

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 frustrations

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 frustrations

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

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 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 to do on Gentoo:

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 only

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bo Andresen wrote: snip 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)