On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 23:23, Thomas Smith wrote: > I'm new to Gentoo (switching from RH9) and have become used to RPMs and > their query tools. > > I've been looking for a way to query the Portage database to determine > what's installed and get general info regarding the packages--I'm > looking for something similar to "rpm -qa". > > At the end of this > section--http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-manual.xml#doc_chap3--in > the Portage user manual it indicates that there's an > app-admin/gentoolkit to assist with Portage queries. I have yet to find > this package or a way to query the Portage database. > > Can anyone direct me to the package or tools that I need in order to do > this?
The emerge command is what you're after. emerge -s <term> will search for <term> in the package database. When you are familiar you might like to: emerge gentoolkit emerge esearch for some extra tools. -- Tom Wesley
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