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Hey group, |
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I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red |
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Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last |
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year I have been using Ubuntu. |
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I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frustrations |
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with Ubuntu because it could be a pain to get newer versions of packages |
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installed. For example Ubuntu defaulted to Apache 1.x for mod_mono. |
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I have now been using Gentoo for a few days and I am running into some |
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issues I hope this group can help with. At first emerge was trying to |
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merge some really old packages. For example I wanted mysql 5.x, php 5.x |
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and Apache 2.x and Gentoo was only going to install mysql 4.x. I did |
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find out about ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" which has helped with getting more |
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recent versions of software installed. |
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I am looking for any good links, tips, suggestions of admin software to |
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emerge, etc to help me learn the ins-and-outs of Gentoo. I have tons of |
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questions but don't know where to look. Well, I can google but that |
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takes ages and I was hoping many of you on this list will have a nice |
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set of bookmarks on gentoo admin, handy gentoo software, tips etc. |
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Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on |
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Gentoo: |
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See list of all *installed* software. |
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Browse available software that can be installed. |
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See what version of a particular software package is installed. |
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See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. |
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Thanks, |
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Jim |
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