[aklug] Re: More on tiff2pdf and other command line tools

I do like Gentoo, it has probably been my favorite distro. It was just to
time consuming at the time I was using it because I could not use Linux as
my daily driver. Trying to update Gentoo once a week with the slower
network access I had available at the time just took too long.
For checking to see if I have a particular package installed in Fedora, I
usually execute "rpm -qa | grep [package name]".

Without the grep part, rpm lists all packages in the install database.

"Yum info [package name]" will also give me the information, but this only
searches the exact package name unless the operator suspects there is a
variant of the name and thinks to add an asterix to the package name. Yum
has the added advantage in that it will tell if the requested package is
available in any of the repositories that are set up. Or the update, as the
case may be.

My difficulty is that I thought I had the needed package as I had forgotten
about libtiff-tools and was only checking for libtiff, so this didn't help
in this instance. I did use the tools.

Jim G
On May 21, 2012 8:19 PM, "Bruce Hill" <bruce@happypenguincomputers.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 07:28:16PM -0800, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> > What I suspectmight be happening here is that I, as well as R Dennison
> and
> > others, are so used to things like tff2pd being avaible by default, we
> > forget those are really "optional" tools and are being intalled as
> > "standard" options.
> > But as the Linux (insert your favorite here) Desktop has matured, we use
> > the command line less and less.
> >
> > Now because we use them less, the developers are starting to leave some
> of
> > them out of the standard install. We don't use it for a while, don't miss
> > it for a while, then forget where it came from.
> >
> > At least, thats MY story and I'm sticking to it!!
> >
> > Jim G
>
> Gentoo has some really impressive tools. One of them is pfl, a searchable
> online file/package database for Gentoo. It uses e-file to find what these
> commands get installed by:
>
> $ e-file tiff2pdf
> would tell you it's in media-libs/tiff in Gentoo.
>
> I'm sure some of those distros you guys use have similar tools.
>
> Peace,
> Bruce
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Received on Mon May 21 21:18:38 2012