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 apparentl

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 re

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 trie

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 surpr

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

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 its

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 bi

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 Dale
James Ausmus wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Dale > 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 p

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 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 differen

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

2009-10-10 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

[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

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

2009-10-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale 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 this

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

2009-10-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Zhengquan Zhang writes: > 2009/10/9 Justin : >> 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, >>> >> emerge app-portage/port