Just Saying Hi from kb5zxm aka Darrell Derrick Magnolia Texas

[darrell derrick]

I am as lost as a goose, not sure even if I posted here before, not sure how the web site navigation works . I have limited  NIX < linux> experience . I am using LL2.2 , on a dell d620,
this is the first time I have been able to get a dell broadcom 14xx nic to work on any Linux with out an after market wifi card..  I wanted to be able to run a computer as a tool from the command line, like I once did from DOS 5 and 6 with Dosshell, if I could have a 32 bit dos I would be doing that. I have a lot of radio experience I have had a GROL since I was 17 yrs old and owned a repair service. Among other careers, mostly electro mechanical /electronic.
When It comes to this Linux, I am not really sure how to frame my questions, Learning the vocabulary among other things.
This site is all I have as far as a source or club for answers . I want among other things to learn to use GNU radio , but I have not found a straight "do this" help page that does not require more skills than I posses, like compiling in Python or C++ 
More silly questions to come , How do I ask the terminal page to tell me what packages are installed in my LL2.2 at this time. I expect a long slog to get there but I am disabled and retired and broke , so slogging is ok.    Cheers

[Valtam]

Hello and welcome darrell derrick. Have a read of the Help Manual on the Menu. This will give you a great head-start.
For any questions you may have, please post in the 'Support' sections of these Forums, theres one for Software and one for Hardware.

How do I ask the terminal page to tell me what packages are installed in my LL2.2 at this time.

Open a terminal and do:

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dpkg --get-selections

[gold_finger]

Welcome to forum Darrell.

In addition to checking out the Help Manual, have a look through some of the links on this thread:  Linux Basics: Useful Beginner Information.

Don't worry about being "lost".  We were all lost when first starting out.

[N4RPS]

Hello, Darrell!

Welcome to Linux Lite.

For the uninitiated, GROL stands for 'General Radiotelephone Operator License'. In the USA, a GROL gives one authority to repair all sorts of commercial radio transmitters. To have earned that privilege at 17 is nothing short of amazing!

I just happen to also be on a D620 myself right now, with LL 2.0 and Windows 7 as a dual-booter. One of the local universities here still uses D620/D630 for their students, and why not? They're bloody workhorses, and replacement parts - even whole units - are dirt cheap. With 4 GB RAM on board, they run Windows 7 x64 AND LL amd64 with the best of 'em...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[bitsnpcs]

Hello darrell derrick,

Welcome to Linux Lite and the forum 

When using the terminal cli these are a few of the first commands I have learned relating to navigating.

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--help

type the command name a space and then --help will show a description of the command.
example

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ls --help

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man

man or manual pages display the manual about a command or program, you type man then a space and the command for example man ls will show the manual pages for the ls command.

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info

then the command name, like man pages but it can have more detailed, if unavailable it will default to the man page usually it seems.
Try

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man ls

then try

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info ls

as an example comparison.

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pwd

present working directory

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ls

lists the contents of the current directory

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ls -R

lists recursively , shows the contents of the directory and the contents of the folders in the directory.

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ls -a

lists the directory contents and lists the hidden files in the directory.

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ls -aR

lists the directory contents and the contents of all folders , and all the hidden files.

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cd

cd a space and then the Directory name, (case sensitive directory names) will change to that directory as the pwd.
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cd Music

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cd ~

cd and a tilde, used in any directory will change your pwd to your Home directory, for your username.
It's a really great command, and helped me/gave me a bit more confidence not to get lost whilst navigating.

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cd ..

will move you up /back the directory structure by 1 level.

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ls -l

will list the files and give more information about them, such as permissions, file size, dates. Long file format.

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cal

was one of the first commands I used , and I like it, it displays a useful calendar with current date highlighted.

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free

displays system stats, initially I used this and the above command to get used to cli.

Then added

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clear

which clears the cli window other than the prompt.

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exit

to close the cli for the session/day

I think these are the only ones I know so far that I've practiced.
Most important I found is to just relax and have fun with learning.

[altman]

Welcome aboard .

[rokytnji]

Howdy and Welcome.

[darrell derrick]

I hope this reply is going to all the folks who so kindly answered, I saved this page there is so much help here. I had polio at age 2 so my education was mainly from my sisters. The public educ. mill did not get a hold of me Until 5th Grade. As a result I was Interested in every thing, School was a total bore. I was able to watch so many things and people in the shop <drilling rig maint >where my dad was supervisor. I thot I knew DOS , We used it to program radios there was no "Net" there where a few BBS's that concerened radio. Untill the Internet I had no need of more. It may be a while before I am back here but I will be reading in the back ground .
THANK YOU ALL for your help. Darrell de kb5zxm