Re: dpkg-scanpackages - where is it?

[Joel Soete <joel.soete@tiscali.be>]

Richard Hirst wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 10:42:37PM -0800, Ou Phrontis wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Trying to install a deb file with
> > dkpg-scanpackages ./ /dev/null |gzip -c -9 > packages.gz
> >
> > I don't have dkpg-scanpackages but I have dkpg?
> >
> > I do an apt-get install dkpg
> > and get I already have the newest version.
> >
> > So is dkpy-scanpackages inside another package?
> > how would I find it?
> >
> > Of course it is just there on my i386 install.
> >
> > Running debian 3.1 on a b2600  2.6.8-2-64
> >
> > Thanks for any insight, suggestions, links
> >    
>
> richard@beast:/mnt/parisc$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/dpkg-scanpackages
> dpkg-dev: /usr/bin/dpkg-scanpackages
>
>
> So dpkg-scanpackages is provided by dpkg-dev.  dpkg-scanpackages isn't
> used to "install a deb file", but I assume you know what you meant :)
>
> Richard
>
>
>  
Just another tip I use frequently in this case:
<http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages>

At this page's bottom you can "Search the contents of packages"
even by intall type (i.e. stable, testing, ...) and also by arch (i386, 
hppa, ...), e.g. dpkg-scanpackages for stable & hppa
<http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=dpkg-scanpackages&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=stable&arch=hppa>

(well just like a common cmdl it dislikes my dyslectic key typing as 
atp-egt in place of apt-get  ;-| )

hth,
   Joel