Re: finding files in .deb packages

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Marcin Kurc <siemce@linux.indtech.edu> wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 01:23:15PM -0700, John P. Donaldson wrote: 
>> I'm running slink.  How do would I know that
>> libdb.so.3 is part of libc6 on slink?  I can't find it
>> documented.  I even downloaded the file you suggested,
>> "contents-i386" and did a search for libdb.so.3 and it
>> didn't find it.  I also went to
>> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and searched
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> for libdb.so.3 and it didn't return any results.  Am I
>> just brain dead or am I missing something?
>
>You are missing my post.
>I said go to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and search for packages.

Note the underlined part above. (Searching for packages wouldn't help,
surely?)

Search for libdb.so instead; you'll find that libdb.so.2 is in libc6 on
slink, so you'll either have to upgrade to potato's libc6 (which may
mean you have to upgrade other things to potato too) or recompile the
program from source against slink's libc6-dev.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]