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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

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.

Quote: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

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.

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

Hello darrell derrick,

Welcome to Linux Lite and the forum Smile

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.
Example

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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.

Welcome aboard .

Howdy and Welcome.

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

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