Re: dpkg -S

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 11 Aug, Patrick Olson wrote about "Re: dpkg -S"
> 
>> Grab debian/dists/<dist>/{main,contrib,non-free}/Contents-<yourarch>.gz .
>> It may be in a slightly different place, but that should be what you need.
> 
> Thanks for the info (and the quick reply).  I grabbed
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz
> 
> I think it has all three (main,contrib,non-free).  It works perfectly:
> 
> $ grep libncurses.so.3.0 Contents-i386
> lib/libncurses.so.3.0                                   oldlibs/ncurses3.0
> 
> This is exactly what I need.
> 

Comming in late after a short vacation.

This is always available and up to date at the "Search the Contents 
of the Latest Release" seearch engine at 
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.html

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Brian 
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