On 3/9/06, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Welcome!!! > > 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. http://www.gentoo.org -> Docs Lots of info, migrating guides, howtos, and initial setup. http://forums.gentoo.org/ Any doubts, search first, ask later... http://gentoo-wiki.com/ LOTS of specific, hardware, software and configuration related topics. > > Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on > Gentoo: > > See list of all *installed* software. kuroo is good, porthole seemed to do that too, but it segfault in one of my system. > Browse available software that can be installed. http://packages.gentoo.org > See what version of a particular software package is installed. eix <package> > See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. emerge -u world -pv Also take a look at man emerge, man portage and the use of packages.* files. Avoid setting stuff at command line, like ACCEPT_KEYWORDS for example, use /etc/portage/packages.keywords. -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
