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On 3/9/06, Jim <Jim@×××××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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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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Welcome to Gentoo... I'm sure you will find it much easier to maintain |
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then Fedora or Ubuntu, especially if you need newer packages. If you |
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have any questions I would suggest you google them first, for example |
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if you want to learn how to setup Samba on Gentoo I would google for |
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"Gentoo samba" if you do a query like that the best pages are usually |
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in the top 2 or 3 results. There are some excellent docs sites too... |
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my favorites are: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/Main_Page |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/list.xml |
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Regarding the specific questions you have... |
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> See list of all *installed* software. |
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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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emerge gentoolkit and read the man page for equery it does all of this |
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stuff for you. I would also encourage you to read up on emerge as it |
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is a very powerful tool for all things Portage. |
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> Browse available software that can be installed. |
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You can do this with emerge -s <packagename> but IMO to get any really |
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useful information check out http://www.gentoo-portage.com or |
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http://packages.gentoo.org. Also if you need something that is exotic |
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and not in Portage yet you can check out http://bugs.gentoo.org and |
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search for an ebuild or write one yourself. |
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-Mike |
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________________________________ |
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Michael E. Crute |
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http://mike.crute.org |
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