On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Joost Roeleveld <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 07 April 2011 15:14:43 Dale wrote: >> Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> > Hi, Jeremy. >> > >> > On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 11:05:41AM -0500, Jeremy McSpadden wrote: >> >> [I] net-misc/netkit-telnetd >> >> >> >> Available versions: 0.17-r6 0.17-r8 ~0.17-r9 ~0.17-r10 >> >> Installed versions: 0.17-r8(04:51:44 11/19/09) >> >> Homepage: >> >> ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/Networking/netkit/ >> >> Description: Standard Linux telnet client and >> >> server >> > >> > Thanks, I've installed this and it seems to work. >> > >> >> learn to search portage. either "eix" or "emerge -s" >> > >> > That I'll have to do. I'm not fully comfortable with emerge yet. >> > >> >> Jeremy >> >> Sounds like you are new. Interesting commands: The "q" family. Just >> do a "man q" and check it out since there is a few of them. There is >> also eix, genlop which sort of has some common tools as the "q" family. >> You also need use eselect from time to time as well. There are also >> times when revdep-rebuild will rear its head too. >> >> That should be a start and I'm sure someone will point out one or two I >> missed as well. ;-) > > To search for specific packages, I think Dale and Mark did a good set. > As for the others, like "revdep-rebuild", there is also "python-updater" and > "etc-update". > > The last "etc-update" is only really needed when doing upgrades. I would like > to recommend you try these commands before you are too dependent on the > installation. > Making mistakes while learning is a good method, but can also be extremely > frustrating when these same mistakes keep you from enjoying the use of the > computer. (Yes, I am speaking from personal experience ;) ) > > -- > Joost
Let's potentially add module-rebuild -X rebuild to the list of little gems that keep Gentoo systems happy when installing a new kernel. Cheers, Mark
