[gentoo-user] No more... more?

[gentoo-user] No more... more?

[Mike Diehl]

The other day I was updating a fairly ancient system by trying to first clear 
out some emerge blockers.  I've taken care of the blockers, but now I find 
that my system no longer has a more command:

# more
bash: more: command not found

I also notice that sys-apps/more is masked:

*  sys-apps/more [ Masked ]
      Latest version available: 2.12r
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 1,338 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/
      Description:   Primitive text file viewer
      License:       GPL-2

Surely this isn't what I'm supposed to install just to get "more."  Please 
advise.

-- 
Mike Diehl

Re: [gentoo-user] No more... more?

[kashani]

Mike Diehl wrote:
> The other day I was updating a fairly ancient system by trying to first clear 
> out some emerge blockers.  I've taken care of the blockers, but now I find 
> that my system no longer has a more command:
> 
> # more
> bash: more: command not found
> 
> I also notice that sys-apps/more is masked:
> 
> *  sys-apps/more [ Masked ]
>       Latest version available: 2.12r
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of files: 1,338 kB
>       Homepage:      http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/
>       Description:   Primitive text file viewer
>       License:       GPL-2
> 
> Surely this isn't what I'm supposed to install just to get "more."  Please 
> advise.
> 

You didn't happen to unmerge coreutils did you because it was blocking? 
If so that is the cause of your problems. I'm not sure how to recovery 
from a lack of coreutils since most of your system binaries are now gone.

kashani

Re: [gentoo-user] No more... more?

[Andrey Falko]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Mike Diehl <mdiehl@diehlnet.com> wrote:
> The other day I was updating a fairly ancient system by trying to first clear
> out some emerge blockers.  I've taken care of the blockers, but now I find
> that my system no longer has a more command:
>
> # more
> bash: more: command not found
>
> I also notice that sys-apps/more is masked:
>
> *  sys-apps/more [ Masked ]
>      Latest version available: 2.12r
>      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>      Size of files: 1,338 kB
>      Homepage:      http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/
>      Description:   Primitive text file viewer
>      License:       GPL-2
>
> Surely this isn't what I'm supposed to install just to get "more."  Please
> advise.
>
> --
> Mike Diehl
>
>

You probably will get more by reemerging this package: sys-apps/util-linux

emerge -1 util-linux

At least there is the package that currently provides more on my system.

Either way, I'd recommend what the more man page recommends: use less.
Direct quote from my more man page:

"More is a filter for paging through text one screenful at a time.
This version is especially primitive.  Users should realize that
less(1) provides more(1) emulation and extensive enhancements."

Re: [gentoo-user] No more... more?

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2008 22:22:05 schrieb Mike Diehl:

> Surely this isn't what I'm supposed to install just to get "more."  Please
> advise.

In addition to what others wrote: less is more ;-).

Bye...

	Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] No more... more?

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Thursday 23 October 2008, 22:22, Mike Diehl wrote:

> The other day I was updating a fairly ancient system by trying to
> first clear out some emerge blockers.  I've taken care of the
> blockers, but now I find that my system no longer has a more command:
>
> # more
> bash: more: command not found
>
> I also notice that sys-apps/more is masked:
>
> *  sys-apps/more [ Masked ]
>       Latest version available: 2.12r
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of files: 1,338 kB
>       Homepage:      http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/
>       Description:   Primitive text file viewer
>       License:       GPL-2
>
> Surely this isn't what I'm supposed to install just to get "more." 
> Please advise.

$ qfile /bin/more
sys-apps/util-linux (/bin/more)

Did you by chance unmerge util-linux? Try re-emerging it.

Re: [gentoo-user] No more... more?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:31:16 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

> In addition to what others wrote: less is more ;-).

less is not more, less is more than more, but less is less than most :P


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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Re: [gentoo-user] No more... more?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 23 October 2008 22:31:16 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2008 22:22:05 schrieb Mike Diehl:
> > Surely this isn't what I'm supposed to install just to get "more."
> >  Please advise.
>
> In addition to what others wrote: less is more ;-).

Pah! You old-fashioned fogeys. Wake up and come into the 21st century:

most

it's more more than less

(Seriously. sys-apps/most.
And while you're at it, emerge sys-apps/dog. It's better than cat)

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] No more... more?

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2008 22:38:21 schrieb Alan McKinnon:

> (Seriously. sys-apps/most.
> And while you're at it, emerge sys-apps/dog. It's better than cat)

Sure it is!

Bye...

	Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] No more... more?

[Mike Diehl]

On Thursday 23 October 2008 02:32:02 pm Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Thursday 23 October 2008, 22:22, Mike Diehl wrote:
> > The other day I was updating a fairly ancient system by trying to
> > first clear out some emerge blockers.  I've taken care of the
> > blockers, but now I find that my system no longer has a more command:
> >
> > # more
> > bash: more: command not found
> >
> > I also notice that sys-apps/more is masked:
> >
> > *  sys-apps/more [ Masked ]
> >       Latest version available: 2.12r
> >       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
> >       Size of files: 1,338 kB
> >       Homepage:      http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/
> >       Description:   Primitive text file viewer
> >       License:       GPL-2
> >
> > Surely this isn't what I'm supposed to install just to get "more."
> > Please advise.
>
> $ qfile /bin/more
> sys-apps/util-linux (/bin/more)
>
> Did you by chance unmerge util-linux? Try re-emerging it.

Man, I don't remember unmerging util-linux, but it was late...  Anyway, that 
fixed it.  Thank you.

-- 
Mike Diehl

Re: [gentoo-user] No more... more?

[Mike Diehl]

On Thursday 23 October 2008 02:31:16 pm Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2008 22:22:05 schrieb Mike Diehl:
> > Surely this isn't what I'm supposed to install just to get "more."
> >  Please advise.
>
> In addition to what others wrote: less is more ;-).

This is true... more or less. <grin>

-- 
Mike Diehl

Re: [gentoo-user] No more... more?

[kashani]

kashani wrote:

> You didn't happen to unmerge coreutils did you because it was blocking? 
> If so that is the cause of your problems. I'm not sure how to recovery 
> from a lack of coreutils since most of your system binaries are now gone.
> 
> kashani
> 

Oh good it wasn't coreutil. Watch out for that one if you run into it 
though that problem might be older than your machine. Remove mktemp and 
then emerge coretuils and you should be fine.

kashani

Re: [gentoo-user] No more... more?

[Stroller]

On 23 Oct 2008, at 21:31, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2008 22:22:05 schrieb Mike Diehl:
>
>> Surely this isn't what I'm supposed to install just to get "more."   
>> Please
>> advise.
>
> In addition to what others wrote: less is more ;-).

And most isn't.

Stroller.