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

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.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)
>>      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
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

OK, then teaching a man to fish, you'd try


mark@c2stable ~ $ eix -c telnet
[N] dev-java/telnetd (2.0): A telnet daemon for use in java applications
[N] dev-perl/Net-Telnet (3.03-r1): A Telnet Perl Module
[N] dev-perl/Net-Telnet-Cisco (1.10): Automate telnet sessions w/
routers&switches
[N] net-misc/netkit-telnetd (0.17-r6): Standard Linux telnet client and server
[I] net-misc/telnet-bsd (1.2-r1@01/21/11): Telnet and telnetd ported
from OpenBSD with IPv6 support
[N] net-misc/utelnetd (~0.1.9-r1): A small Telnet daemon, derived from
the Axis tools
[N] sec-policy/selinux-telnet (--): SELinux policy for general applications
Found 7 matches.
mark@c2stable ~ $

mark@c2stable ~ $ equery files telnet-bsd | grep bin
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/telnet
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/in.telnetd
mark@c2stable ~ $

and you have an answer.

In this case telnet, the binary executable, can be provided by
multiple packages, but this gets you much closer than you were.

Good luck, learn the distro and ask questions.

Cheers,
Mark