From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7vrs-000711-8W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:31:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE8E51C0D2; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 20:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.164]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14F51C0D2 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 20:30:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.140] (helo=smtp9.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7vqS-0003wx-5z for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:30:24 +0200 Received: from 5ed02730.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.48] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp9.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7vqH-00060P-Og for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:30:13 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB48139B0 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 22:30:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rHUOksqgatES for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 22:30:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 079CD2962 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 22:30:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet? Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:30:12 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/4.6 beta4 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4D9E1B33.1020205@gmail.com> References: <20110407161923.GA3437@muc.de> <20110407201309.GB8055@muc.de> <4D9E1B33.1020205@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <20110407203013.AB48139B0@data.antarean.org> X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1Q7vqH-00060P-Og X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.928, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e9498f8ce946f12bf3fad017f8e88034 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