Re: Util-Linux package seems to be missing some files

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Mike Reinehr <cmr@amsent.com> writes:

> I did an AMD64 install from the Sarge repository a couple of weeks ago and 
> things have been running well, until I discovered something curious this 
> afternoon. I was going to use sfdisk to save my partition information to a 
> file for safe keeping, but couldn't find sfdisk. So, then I looked for cfdisk 
> & fdisk but couldn't find them, either.
>
> According to the list of files at packages.debian.org these files and more 
> should be in the util-linux package, which I do have installed. But, when I 
> list the files from this package 'dpkg -L util-linux' they are not included 
> nor, I believe are many others (but I haven't made a complete comparison).
>
> So, my question is, where are all the other files that should be in the 
> util-linux package? Are they in another package, or is this an error by the 
> package builder(s)?

How does your apt sources.list look like?

> Thanks!
>
> Mike Reinehr

MfG
        Goswin