On 19-Aug-00, 18:56 (CDT), Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote: > for things like querying (dpkg -s and such) install dlocate it solves > that problem the Right Way. (unfortunatly it got removed from potato > for less then critical bugs) man apt-cache. (Assuming you're using apt-get either directly or via dselect, and there is no reason not to!) Steve