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 1Q7wfO-0000jA-Ee for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:23:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7EFD91C021; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 21:21:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f181.google.com (mail-iw0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E31F1C021 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 21:21:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn2 with SMTP id 2so3782915iwn.40 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:21:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=AUWUFrmBRrr//8GdMEPPkZwvbBCRbxda7QXiS4pRRDA=; b=VJZI/tUNtP8QdbhB7xW45i+tyJn8dC3Ga5tnmPgJuuSPFbDF+V7O8sXMf5Uhh46dFY uKk64xEtzY5nRMr6jGhEFFI9mbmVmjEti0d77yfAYnhh0SWdiHa2ImFQQVUZxRoBdF8M uGT3DZQFSQc/D56ZR1RCzftaTifJlid5AHnXs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=r3J7etvwwn+vBYraM/ujb/cpIwm1zwuFXIOUMtX4zwN7466Al06HfdNVviSgWOtGbR 0KlEbG9c9Z4Hpubr5ZQUDEZahjt2Pr+yaCTGzTLQvLgeWBa2W/6EDwx6DhWwV2SXe6jt ZjaaL5R5/0G0Yh4i9qcb1SrbJNH1RMw9LoMTs= 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 Received: by 10.43.62.197 with SMTP id xb5mr2294628icb.246.1302211279705; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:21:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.167.74 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 14:21:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110407203013.AB48139B0@data.antarean.org> References: <20110407161923.GA3437@muc.de> <20110407201309.GB8055@muc.de> <4D9E1B33.1020205@gmail.com> <20110407203013.AB48139B0@data.antarean.org> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 14:21:19 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why can't I emerge telnet? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Joost Roeleveld Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6d136a314372f3cfbec6eef4b9bb52b3 On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Joost Roeleveld 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 >> >> >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Available versions: =C2=A00.17-r6 0.17-r8 ~0.17-= r9 ~0.17-r10 >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Installed versions: =C2=A00.17-r8(04:51:44 11/19= /09) >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Homepage: >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/Networking/netk= it/ >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Description: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Standar= d Linux telnet client and >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 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. =C2=A0I'm not fully comfortable with emerge yet. >> > >> >> Jeremy >> >> Sounds like you are new. =C2=A0Interesting commands: =C2=A0The "q" famil= y. =C2=A0Just >> do a "man q" and check it out since there is a few of them. =C2=A0There = 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. =C2=A0There are als= o >> 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. =C2=A0;-) > > 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 extremel= y > frustrating when these same mistakes keep you from enjoying the use of th= e > 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