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

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.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 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
>>
>> Sounds like you are new.  Interesting commands:  The "q" family.  Just
>> do a "man q" and check it out since there is a few of them.  There is
>> also eix, genlop which sort of has some common tools as the "q" family.
>> You also need use eselect from time to time as well.  There are also
>> times when revdep-rebuild will rear its head too.
>>
>> That should be a start and I'm sure someone will point out one or two I
>> missed as well.  ;-)
>
> To search for specific packages, I think Dale and Mark did a good set.
> As for the others, like "revdep-rebuild", there is also "python-updater" and
> "etc-update".
>
> 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.
> Making mistakes while learning is a good method, but can also be extremely
> frustrating when these same mistakes keep you from enjoying the use of the
> computer. (Yes, I am speaking from personal experience ;) )
>
> --
> Joost

Let's potentially add

module-rebuild -X rebuild

to the list of little gems that keep Gentoo systems happy when
installing a new kernel.

Cheers,
Mark