Re: Where is /usr/bin/file?

[Hartmut Figge <hfigge@knuut.de>]

Greg Starkes wrote:
> 
> I downloaded xmms 0.9 last night. make complained about not being able
> to find /usr/bin/file. I used dpkg --search to see what packaged owned
> it, and found nothing. Is this not a part of the debian distribution? I
> noticed that RedHat has it.

just fired up dselect -> select -> /file, that revealed (on slink) file
version 3.26-1 in ´Standard packages in section utils´.

also, if you search for file in www.debian.org/distrib/packages you will
be successful.

hafi