VI Editor?

abbas · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 5

Hi.

I have just got a Gentoo and VPS and am trying to edit files. But I cant find out how to emerge the VI editor? Anybody have any ideas? Its a stumbling block.

Thanks.
Abbas.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:54 am Post subject:

abbas,

Welcome to Gentoo.

abbas · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 5

Fantastic! Thank you soo much.

I currently have a laptop with SuSE 10.0 on it. Now before everyone starts moaning, the reason I did was because of all the distors I tried, it was the only one that by default worked with my power management. I didnt even know about the Gentoo, but from the 1st use it has fantastic performance. SuSE is like windows with a bit too much "stuff" loaded. Ahh, just saw the Live CD, will download it and check it out.

Thanks for the command. Does emerge --sync take long? My VPS is has been running for almost an hour???

Abbas.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:52 pm Post subject:

abbas,

How long emerge --sync takes depends on what it has to too.
If your portage tree is completly empty, it will download anout 120Mb (from memory)
If its only updating an existing tree, it will only fetch the changes.

After the downlaod is complete, it updates its cache. This is much faster with portage 2.1, than with portage 2.0
If you have portage 2.0, it can spend a very long time at around 52% with no apparent progress. Leave it, it will move on.

You can also save space and time by setting portage excludes, so you don't get branches of the tree you never use.
See