Re: Where is /usr/bin/file?

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 12-Jun-99 Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 12 Jun, Greg Starkes wrote about "Where is /usr/bin/file?"
>> 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.
>> 
> 
> The --search won't help if you don't have the correct package installed
> unfortunately. If you want to find the package that has the file you can
> use the search engine "Search the Contents of the Latest Release" 
> at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.html, or download a copy of
> the dist/stable/Contents-<$arch>.gz file to your local drive and search
> it, omit the leading slash.
> 
> % zgrep usr/bin/file Contents-i386.gz
> usr/bin/file                                            utils/file
> 
> Therefor file is in its own package.
> 
> Package: file
> Status: install ok installed

That explains the result I got on my system.  Same as above.

thanks

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Andrew