EeePC: Missing Utilities
A couple utilities I was surprised to see in their current state on the Eee:
- host
- bc
Of course, installing extra packages isn’t hard: the eeeuser wiki has fine instructions, and I’ve already installed both utilities, but I was somewhat surprised that it wasn’t there by default.
Similarly, I was surprised that when I ran ‘cal’, the date was ‘highlighted’ (in reversed font), since that doesn’t happen on my stock debian install.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:40 pm
In order to install bc, just dowload it from http://packages.debian.org/etch/i386/bc/download and form a console run
$dpkg -i bc*.deb
and voila !!