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Re: consolehelper??



On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:50:08 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 08:53:32AM +0100, Aquarion wrote:
>> Micke H took 5 tacks to pin this to the wall of linux.debian.user
>> >Is consolehelper something that i can find for a debian system?
>> >/m
>> 
>> apt-cache search consolehelper returned nothing, so it's not in the
>> distro.
>
>'apt-cache search' isn't reliable for finding files; you need to
>download the appropriate Contents-*.gz file for your architecture from
>e.g. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/Contents-i386.gz and
>zgrep through that, or else use the search form on
>http://packages.debian.org/.

Point taken, although the orginal post seemed to suggest it was an
application, rather than a feature of another application.

Having said that, I can't for the life of me work out where I read
that from. 

>That said, consolehelper isn't in any of the Contents files either.

Aha :-)

>(Hi Nick, BTW :))

Hi Kam, LTNS :-D

Yours In Total Sincerity

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