gnu grep on R-Pi

*COUGH* "package managers enable users to autonomously discover software which meets their needs, instead of having to read several obscure forums hoping for announcements and/or advice" *COUGH*

So it is! I looked through the list, got as far as THHeap and THSound, and assumed that it wasn’t. Of course, I hadn’t banked on H coming before e in the !PackMan sort order. Mea culpa.

It’s sorting it by ASCII code which is why the sort order is a bit funny. The Packaging back end gives them in this order, but I’ll add it to my list to investigate if I can fix it in PackMan in a future release.

COUGH “package managers enable users to autonomously discover software which meets their needs, instead of having to read several obscure forums hoping for announcements and/or advice” COUGH

Well nothings perfect! He would have found it if the sort order was a little more sensible or he had scrolled a little further. As he was after textseek in particular he could have used the search button to look for it or dropped down one of the filters to narrow the search.

I’m not sure this is an obscure forum as he got his answer in the place he put the question – no searching involved. If you are looking for a particular piece of software you don’t know the name of searching the package list or scrolling through the list of packages seems a pretty simple way to search to me.

I’m not sure this is an obscure forum as he got his answer in the place he put the question

Yes and no.
From the point of view of getting meaningful answers about current developing RO builds and packages available on them, the best place to ask is probably here.
However, if you are a total newcomer to RO who bought a Pi and discovered that you can put the original ARM OS on it and do things then you may actually be asking first off in the forum on the Pi site. Only if someone there says to ask over on the ROOL forums does the newcomer ask here.

The FAQ page needs two things:
1. More info. A link to a list of programs available via PackMan may be part of that.
2. Splitting into sub-pages sometime soon.

Actually, it’s a bit of both… If the question is more to do with applications than the operating system, I tend to ask on the pi forum. I wasn’t sure with this question, as although technically grep is an application, it’s such a fundamental part to programming that I thought I’d try here first as it just seemed logical.

And even as a newcomer I don’t see this forum as obscure! Quirky, certainly, but not obscure :)