Re: Questions About dpkg and friends
Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net> wrote:
>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).
If you grab the Contents-i386.gz (or whatever) file out of the archive -
it's in dists/stable or dists/unstable, depending - then you can grep
through that for whatever you need. I usually find that faster than the
available search tools on the web.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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