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Re: how do I find which deb pakage contains man command?



On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 06:00:05PM +0900, Geengun Guim wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> How can I find which deb pakage contains man command?
> 
> okebary:~/okebary-sys-conf# man securetty
> bash: man: command not found

    dpkg -S /usr/bin/man
    man-db: /usr/bin/man

You want to install "man-db"

You can usually search for packages at the Debian website.

> I'd like to know about login as root.  So I ran man securetty.  But
> command not found.  So I'd like to install man.  But I cannot find which
> deb pakage has the man command.  Also I can, do the below.
> 
> okebary:/mnt/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/misc# dpkg -c gpm_1.14-3.deb
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 1998-10-31 08:24 ./
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/

[...]

> okebary:/mnt/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/misc#
> 
> But I have to confirm each pakages, I cannot do dpkg -c *.  Is there any
> good solution to solve that I check every pakages under mounted cd?

    $ find . -type f -name \*.deb -exec dpkg -c {} \;

> Many thanks to responsers,
> Geengun
> 
> 
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