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Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?



begin Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> 
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:08:54PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> > Doing a dpkg --configure <pkgname> won't work because the
> > packages have already been configured.
> 
> I just stumbled across dpkg-reconfigure (a mention of
> dpkg-reconfigure on the dpkg man page might be a good idea).
> Now, if only there was some way to figure out what package
> owned a particular file...
 
i wonder which package owns "/bin/ls"?   let me see...

% dpkg -S /bin/ls
fileutils: /bin/ls

ahh.  it looks like fileutils owns /bin/ls!    :)

i have a debian package tutorial that i'm writing.  it's incomplete, but
is still very useful:

http://www.dirac.org/linux/debian

pete


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