Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

On Thursday 09 March 2006 20:16, Jim wrote:
> Hey group,
>
> I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo.  I used Red
> Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last
> year I have been using Ubuntu.
>
> I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frustrations
> with Ubuntu because it could be a pain to get newer versions of packages
> installed.  For example Ubuntu defaulted to Apache 1.x for mod_mono.
>
> I have now been using Gentoo for a few days and I am running into some
> issues I hope this group can help with.  At first emerge was trying to
> merge some really old packages.  For example I wanted mysql 5.x, php 5.x
> and Apache 2.x and Gentoo was only going to install mysql 4.x.  I did
> find out about ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" which has helped with getting more
> recent versions of software installed.
>
> I am looking for any good links, tips, suggestions of admin software to
> emerge, etc to help me learn the ins-and-outs of Gentoo.  I have tons of
> questions but don't know where to look.  Well, I can google but that
> takes ages and I was hoping many of you on this list will have a nice
> set of bookmarks on gentoo admin, handy gentoo software, tips etc.
>
> Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on
> Gentoo:
>
> See list of all *installed* software.

best done in kuroo ;)

> Browse available software that can be installed.

best done in kuroo, too.

> See what version of a particular software package is installed.

emerge -s or emerge -S

> See if any new versions of *installed* software are available.
> ...
emerge -u, emerge -s or emerge -S 
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