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Re: which pkg contains that file



On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 10:19:17AM +0200, Mark Janssen wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 10:18, Dayalan Manohar wrote:
> > Hi,
> > How does one find out which package contains a particular file/command 
> > so that it can then be installed using apt-get ?I want to install pico but
> > "apt-get install pico" does not seem to work.
> > Thanks,
> > Dayalan
> 
> 
> AFAIK pico isn't packaged, since it is not DFSG free software.
> 
> Apt-cache search <something>
> 
> will usually find what you need.
> 
> Pico might be found in the pine(4)-src package.

Pico is in the non-free section, so if you're not using non-free, you
won't see it.

Take care,

Peter.

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Peter Whysall
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