Newbie -looking for equivalent commands + misc questions

[marcopl]

hi members,

A. in a rpm based distro, in a terminal, i can type 'rpm -qa|grep packagename' to see if i have a particluar rpm or a group of rpms installed.

is there an equivalent in kubuntu?

B. i installed Kubuntu JJ from a CD. What command do i use in a terminal to see if i have a 32bit or a 64bit system?

uname -a shows;

Linux compaq-laptop 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

C. Again in a rpm environment, u can use the command 'chkconfig --list' to see what daemons u have, run on boot, runlevels, etc. What is the equivalent in kubuntu?

C1. You can restart all services with 'service -R'? anything similar in kubuntu?

D. is there a kubuntu jj admin guide ?

[Fintan]

Re: Newbie -looking for equivalent commands + misc questions

Welcome to the party

Coming from rpm you may fins apt-get a bit weird at first but much more fun later

For:

A. in a rpm based distro, in a terminal, i can type 'rpm -qa|grep packagename' to see if i have a particluar rpm or a group of rpms installed.

is there an equivalent in kubuntu?

have alook here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux...ntu-or-debian/

as always google is a friend

For:

B. i installed Kubuntu JJ from a CD. What command do i use in a terminal to see if i have a 32bit or a 64bit system?

I don't have a 64bit system (yet) but I use this:

lsb_release -a

I don't know if that will help

For:

C. Again in a rpm environment, u can use the command 'chkconfig --list' to see what daemons u have, run on boot, runlevels, etc. What is the equivalent in kubuntu?

Maybe this?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6...mons-in-ubuntu

For:

C1. You can restart all services with 'service -R'? anything similar in kubuntu?

This?
http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/11/...on-ubuntu-710/
or this?
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-26882.html
For:

D. is there a kubuntu jj admin guide ?

There is this:
http://kubuntuguide.org/Jaunty

I hope some of the above helps

[marcopl]

Re: Newbie -looking for equivalent commands + misc questions

thanx fintan. will check out those links...

[marcopl]

Re: Newbie -looking for equivalent commands + misc questions

hi members,

A. in a rpm based distro, in a terminal, i can type 'rpm -qa|grep packagename' to see if i have a particluar rpm or a group of rpms installed.

is there an equivalent in kubuntu?

its dpkg --get-selections|grep -i packagename

B. i installed Kubuntu JJ from a CD. What command do i use in a terminal to see if i have a 32bit or a 64bit system?

uname -a shows;

Linux compaq-laptop 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -a doesnt give the necessary info , though it does on a mandriva box. In JJ i got;

~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
Codename: jaunty

Any ideas anybody? how to verify if the OS is 32bit or 64bit?

C. Again in a rpm environment, u can use the command 'chkconfig --list' to see what daemons u have, run on boot, runlevels, etc. What is the equivalent in kubuntu?

u need to install additional software , such as;

- bum ( best choice ?)
- sysv-rc-conf
- rcconf

these allow u to see/edit what daemons are configured to run at bootup and at what runlevels.

C1. You can restart all services with 'service -R'? anything similar in kubuntu?

BUT NO COMMAND LIKE 'service -R' that will allow u to restart all services at one go.

Am i wrong? is there one?

D. is there a kubuntu jj admin guide ?

http://kubuntuguide.org/Jaunty is great.

[Guest]

Re: Newbie -looking for equivalent commands + misc questions

For the OS version, you could try:

uname -a

It will give lots of info about your kernel.
Or just use:

uname -m

for just the "machine hardware name". For me, that outputs "x86_64".

[marcopl]

Re: Newbie -looking for equivalent commands + misc questions

uname -a covered in earlier post. uname -m gives me i686;

sudo uname -m

i686

[GreyGeek]

Re: Newbie -looking for equivalent commands + misc questions

chkconfig is in the repository. In a konsole enter

sudo apt-get install chkconfig


Or, you can try runit

Or, you can try sysvconfig

[Fintan]

Re: Newbie -looking for equivalent commands + misc questions

For kde version:

$ kde4-config --version

For kubuntu version:

lsb_release -a

[marcopl]

Re: Newbie -looking for equivalent commands + misc questions

chkconfig is in the repository. In a konsole enter

sudo apt-get install chkconfig

I installed chkconfig and when i tried running a command, it gave me errors, as shown below;

~$ sudo chkconfig mysql off
insserv: warning: script 'S01linux-restricted-modules-common' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'K01acpi-support' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'linux-restricted-modules-common' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'acpi-support' missing LSB tags and overrides

[marcopl]

Re: Newbie -looking for equivalent commands + misc questions

For kubuntu version:

lsb_release -a

my machine gives;

sudo lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
Codename: jaunty

No info on whether its a 32bit or 64 bit system?

[GreyGeek]

Re: Newbie -looking for equivalent commands + misc questions

chkconfig is in the repository. In a konsole enter

sudo apt-get install chkconfig

I installed chkconfig and when i tried running a command, it gave me errors, as shown below;

~$ sudo chkconfig mysql off
insserv: warning: script 'S01linux-restricted-modules-common' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'K01acpi-support' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'linux-restricted-modules-common' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'acpi-support' missing LSB tags and overrides

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...1-5033660.html

I've never used chkconfig but shouldn't the command be:

sudo chkconfig mysqld off

[marcopl]

Re: Newbie -looking for equivalent commands + misc questions

I've never used chkconfig but shouldn't the command be:

sudo chkconfig mysqld off

NO

~$ sudo chkconfig mysqld --list
mysqld: unknown service

BUT

~$ sudo chkconfig mysql --list
mysql 0ff 1ff 2n 3n 4n 5n 6ff


i just wanted to know what the warnings( shown in the earlier post) were about.

[marcopl]

Re: Newbie -looking for equivalent commands + misc questions

looking for 'ubuntu insserv: warning: script missing LSB tags and overrides' in google gives a lot of hits with similar warning messages.

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: mountdevsubfs
# Required-Start: mountkernfs
# Required-Stop:
# Should-Start: udev
# Default-Start: S
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: Mount special file systems under /dev.
# Description: Mount the virtual filesystems the kernel provides
# that ordinarily live under the /dev filesystem.
### END INIT INFO

apparently adding lines as shown above , with appropriate modifications for the necessary packages is supposed to solve this issue.

Anyway i m removing chkconfig package... what a shame.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Newbie -looking for equivalent commands + misc questions

http://groups.google.com/group/linux...7c8d9eb7cb1efc

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-l.../msg11281.html