Display Package Dependencies
Published on 26 Feb 2004A list of packages which depend on the specified package can be retrieved by the following. etcat
and qpkg
are superceded by equery
as of portage-2.0.50 and gentoolkit-0.2.
A list of packages which depend on the specified package can be retrieved by the following. etcat
and qpkg
are superceded by equery
as of portage-2.0.50 and gentoolkit-0.2.
This feature has not been implemented in gentoolkit-0.2 yet but the etcat
variant which is presented below does still work. etcat
and qpkg
are superceded by equery
as of portage-2.0.50 and gentoolkit-0.2.
The size of an installed package can be retrieved by equery size STRING
. etcat
and qpkg
are superceded by equery
as of portage-2.0.50 and gentoolkit-0.2.
The commands presented below attempt to find an installed package which is responsible for merging the desired file. etcat
and qpkg
are superceded by equery
as of portage-2.0.50 and gentoolkit-0.2.
The import
program offers you a nice and quick way to take screenshots from your X server and saving it in a variety of formats. It belongs to the ImageMagick package which contains tools to create edit and convert images.
The strings
command extracts ASCII strings from files, even binaries.
Although rsync
is also able to connect to a daemon to synchronize with remote locations, it isn’t always possible to install or customize a remote rsync
server, which makes tunnelling through SSH the only alternative. This also ensures privacy and data integrity.
The Linux process scheduler allows custom priorities to be attached to a process to provide some metric to decide whether a process deserves more processor time than others.
You can modify the title of an XTerm window by printing a certain escape sequence.