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Re: unzip not installed?



Willy Lee <willy2@jps.net> wrote:
>willy@geldar:~$ dpkg --status zip
>Package: zip
>Status: install ok installed
[...]
>So 'zip' works, but strangely enough, unzip doesn't seem to have been
>installed.  What's going on?  Do I need to install another package to
>get unzip?

Yes - install the 'unzip' package. (No, I don't know why they're
separate. I would have thought each of them at least ought to suggest
the other. There may be historical reasons for it, such as them being
distributed separately upstream ...)

-- 
Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]



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