Re: Questions About dpkg and friends
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote:
> Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few
> things in the debian package management system.
> 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is
> part of, what's the best way to find out what package you need?
I don't know of a way to do that (it would be nice, however).
> 2) Once you install a package, how can you get a listing of what files
> in the system belong to that package?
dpkg -L <packagename>
> 3) How can you tell what installed package (if any) a particular file in
> the system belongs to?
dpkg -S </path/filename>
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Bob Nielsen, N7XY nielsen@oz.net
Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
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