On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:23:41AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> John McBride <jmcbride@networkone.net> wrote:
> >Carl Fink wrote:
> >> It should, I grant you, but have you tried "dpkg -S"?
> >
> >here's a nasty one:
> >
> >> expectk
> >bash: expectk: command not found
> >
> >root> dpkg -S expectk
> >dpkg: *expectk* not found.
>
> Ah, here you have a different search facility ;)
>
> dpkg -S searches the system for packages owning a particular file. If
> you want to search for package names, try 'dpkg -l *expectk*' or
> 'apt-cache search expectk' (the latter searches descriptions as well).
...and *I* just learned something. Thanks.
> If you want functionality like rpm's --whatprovides, the easiest way is
> probably to install the grep-dctrl package. Then you can do something
> like:
>
> grep-available -FProvides expectk
...and another.
> ... or, for more concise output:
>
> grep-available -FProvides -nsPackage expectk
...that's three things this evening.
Much grass, muchos gracias, or whatever.
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