Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-14 Thread Bill Longman
I just have a little script: $ cat /usr/local/sbin/up-x #!/bin/bash # # /usr/local/sbin/up-x # # Recompile X drivers etc. after kernel upgrade: # emerge  -1 --jobs=5 --keep-going `qlist -IC x11-drivers` \        echo \        sh /usr/local/src/VirtualBox*run \        echo Makes life

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 14 April 2011 12:55:36 Bill Longman wrote: BTW, you do not need to escape newlines after . Just goes to show: you learn something new every day - if you're not careful. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-13 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: 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. etc-update does the job, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 13 April 2011 23:45:01 Alex Schuster wrote: I don't know it stable portage already has this feature, but at least portage-2.2 has a set called module-rebuild. So I just do an emerge @modules-rebuild. Oh, and instead of emerge $( qlist -IC x11-drivers/ ) one can use emerge

[gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo! I would like a telnet client installed on my gentoo amd64 system. When I try emerge telnet , I get told that telnet doesn't exist. What am I doing wrong? Is there a telnet client on gentoo? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Jeremy McSpadden
[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 learn to

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo! I would like a telnet client installed on my gentoo amd64 system.  When I try        emerge telnet , I get told that telnet doesn't exist. What am I doing wrong?  Is there a telnet client on gentoo? -- Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo! I would like a telnet client installed on my gentoo amd64 system.  When I try        emerge telnet , I get told that telnet doesn't exist.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Mick
On Thursday 07 April 2011 17:19:24 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo! I would like a telnet client installed on my gentoo amd64 system. When I try emerge telnet , I get told that telnet doesn't exist. What am I doing wrong? Is there a telnet client on gentoo? As others said

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Alan Mackenzie
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:

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de 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)      

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Dale
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:

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Joost Roeleveld
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 07 April 2011 21:10:32 Mark Knecht wrote: mark@c2stable ~ $ equery files telnet-bsd | grep bin Which of course he can't do until after he's installed the package. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2011 21:10:32 Mark Knecht wrote: mark@c2stable ~ $ equery files telnet-bsd | grep bin Which of course he can't do until after he's installed the package. -- Rgds Peter Damn. You're right.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Peter Humphreype...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2011 21:10:32 Mark Knecht wrote: mark@c2stable ~ $ equery files telnet-bsd | grep bin Which of course he can't do until after he's installed the package.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Matthew Finkel
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 07 April 2011 23:47:22 Dale wrote: I mistyped a package name the other day and portage actually made suggestions as to what I meant to type. O_O I think the devs are trying to program in some ESP code. lol No mate, they've just finally cottoned-on to your and my bad typing! --

Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet?

2011-04-07 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2011 23:47:22 Dale wrote: I mistyped a package name the other day and portage actually made suggestions as to what I meant to type. O_O I think the devs are trying to program in some ESP code. lol No mate, they've just finally