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Original post by CyberSlag5k
Sarge is what I installed. Is that an unstable version?
It's a testing version. You will have the option for kernel 2.6.x in sarge.
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1. It appears all of the commands entered in the terminal are stored. Is there a way to purge those?
history -c
history is a bash builtin, so do a 'help history' to see some info about it.
'info bash' will give general info about... bash.
Sometimes docs can be found by 'man', sometimes by 'info'. Only bash builtins can be found by 'help', but if they're builtin you can probably find something about them in the bash info pages.
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2. I think I need to refine my apt-cache search techniques. I can't ever seem to find what I want. I'm looking to install the SDL and OpenGL libraries, but when I apt-cache search SDL/OpenGL (headers, .h, libraries, etc) I get a ton of results and really none of them look like what i need (except something called libsage, but that didn't work). Can someone suggest a better way to find stuff like that?
Search by package names and/or descriptions. You do want the '-dev' packages. libsdl1.2-dev should be what you want for SDL.
As for OpenGL, that's slightly more tricky. If you have installed the binary NVidia drivers (if you're not sure, you probably haven't), then 'apt-get install nvidia-glx-dev', otherwise try 'apt-get install xlibmesa-gl-dev' (I think). The software OpenGL implementation in Linux is called Mesa.
Oh, and aptitude [inlove]
