[R] X11 not available

Marc Schwartz MSchwartz at medanalytics.com
Sun Sep 7 16:04:07 CEST 2003


On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 05:28, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz at medanalytics.com> writes:
> 
> > Open a console and type:
> > 
> > rpm -qa | grep XFree86-devel
> > 
> > You should get:
> > 
> > XFree86-devel-4.3.0-2
> 
> Correct, but it's a very slow way of doing
> 
> rpm -q XFree86-devel


Quite true:

$ time rpm -q XFree86-devel
XFree86-devel-4.3.0-2
 
real    0m0.054s
user    0m0.040s
sys     0m0.010s

$ time rpm -qa | grep XFree86-devel
XFree86-devel-4.3.0-2
 
real    0m15.021s
user    0m13.880s
sys     0m0.230s


Thanks for pointing that out Peter.

Marc




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