Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a certain program...
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 03:19:19
Message-Id: CAAD4mYgZGKhC5anJ5FzNYGcREiS2uchBX0Va-Bm-2YMi--mGag@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a certain program... by tuxic@posteo.de
1 On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 8:41 PM, <tuxic@××××××.de> wrote:
2 > On 10/13 09:47, Mick wrote:
3 >> On Friday, 13 October 2017 10:37:30 BST Mick wrote:
4 >> > On Friday, 13 October 2017 04:20:19 BST tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
5 >> > > Hi,
6 >> > >
7 >> > > in a video I saw someone using a neat little commandline tool (no gui)
8 >> > > called 'qcalc', with which he performs some interesting calculations.
9 >> > >
10 >> > > I searched the web for it and found this link
11 >> > > https://state-machine.com/qtools/qcalc.html#qcalc_linux
12 >> > > but it is another type of calculator and it has a gui.
13 >> > >
14 >> > > Does someone knows of this commandline tool and what
15 >> > > package/archive/... it is contained in?
16 >> > >
17 >> > > Thanks a lot for any help in advance!
18 >> > > Cheers
19 >> > > Meino
20 >> >
21 >> > Have a look at GNU bc.
22 >> >
23 >> > $ bc
24 >> > bc 1.06.95
25 >> > Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation,
26 >> > Inc.
27 >> > This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
28 >> > For details type `warranty'.
29 >> > 3+5
30 >> > 8
31 >> > sqrt(16)
32 >> > 4
33 >> > quit
34 >> > $
35 >> >
36 >> > man bc shows the capabilities of this calculator which significantly exceed
37 >> > mine and reminds me why I should have paid more attention at school. :-p
38 >>
39 >> Oops! I realised I did not answer your question!
40 >>
41 >> From what I know Qalc (no 'c' after 'q') used to be the CLI version of the
42 >> application called Qalculate, but I have not used it:
43 >>
44 >> https://qalculate.github.io/
45 >>
46 >> --
47 >> Regards,
48 >> Mick
49 >
50 > Hi all,
51 >
52 > thanks for all the input! :)
53 >
54 > I am searching for a program called qcalc. I know bc and several
55 > others but -- sorry -- this time it has to be qcalc.
56 >
57 > Does someone knows about this specific program?
58 >
59 > Cheers
60 > Meino
61 >
62
63 I remember a "qcalc," but really it seems like I am not remembering
64 the name properly, and you are looking for
65 https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/qalc.
66
67 R0b0t1.