{"id":114,"date":"2005-04-11T03:31:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T00:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2005-04-11T03:49:42","modified_gmt":"2005-04-11T00:49:42","slug":"making-life-easier-with-gentoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2005\/04\/11\/making-life-easier-with-gentoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Making life easier with gentoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really like the emerge tool that gentoo has. My only problem so far was the search option it had. It’s sometimes pretty slow, so I wanted an alternative. After some googling I came up with eix<\/a>. It’s a powerfull search tool for the portage with indexing capabilities. So the search is really FAST!<\/p>\n

Here’s an example of a search while emerging the latest gcc:<\/p>\n

\n# time emerge -s doom >\/dev\/null<\/p>\n

real 0m40.642s
\nuser 0m0.768s
\nsys 0m0.210s
\n# time eix -s doom >\/dev\/null<\/p>\n

real 0m1.140s
\nuser 0m0.059s
\nsys 0m0.012s\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think that you can easily spot the “improvement”…right ?<\/p>\n

What I also like about eix is that you can see all available versions when you search for something and not just the latest stable. Check this output when searching for gcc:<\/p>\n

* sys-devel\/gcc
\n Available versions: [P]2.95.3-r8 [P]3.1.1-r2 [P]3.2.3-r4 [P]3.3.2 [P]3.3.2-r5 [P]3.3.2-r7 3.3.5-r1 ~3.3.5.20050130 3.3.5.20050130-r1 ~3.3.5.20050130-r2 *~3.4.1-r3 *~3.4.3-r1 *~3.4.3.20050110-r1 *~3.4.3.20050110-r2 [M]4.0.0_beta20050402
\n Installed: 3.3.5.20050130-r1
\n Homepage: http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/gcc\/gcc.html
\n Description: The GNU Compiler Collection. Includes C\/C++, java compilers, pie+ssp extensions, Haj Ten Brugge runtime bounds checking\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, after searching for doom I’ve decided to install it too \ud83d\ude42 Doom3 to be exact using the pak files I had in my windows ntfs partition. I just needed to “ln -s” the pak files and my savegames to the proper dirs. I now enjoy doom3 on my gentoo and I get about the same fps I used to get at windows (maybe even just a bit better, but that could be because there were many things running concurrently at windows, e.g. antivirus, firewall, windows crappy services,etc) .<\/p>\n

If you like openoffice<\/a> and you use latex<\/a> there’s a very nice macro that combines these 2 worlds: OOoLatexEquation<\/a>. I think it’s just great when you want to have some nice looking math formulas on your documents (embedded as graphics of course). Check this screenshot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh and something I don’t understand. I have emerge multitail some time ago and I saw that there’s an updated version out, but when I “emerge -uDpv world” I don’t see it listed. When I try “emerge -u multitail” it’s there:<\/p>\n

[ebuild U ] app-text\/multitail-3.4.8 [3.4.5] -debug 63 kB<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

any ideas why can this be happening ? Is it a bug ? If it is it could affect the whole system by not listing packages that have security problems and “must” be updated. I have never seen it happening before and I wish I won’t see it in the future again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really like the emerge tool that gentoo has. My only problem so far was the search option it had. It’s sometimes pretty slow, so I wanted an alternative. After some googling I came up with eix. It’s a powerfull search tool for the portage with indexing capabilities. So the search is really FAST! Here’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t