Re: Where is 'startx'?
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 10:54, Michael Kristensen wrote:
> * Bill Wagner <bwagner@gory.org> [2002-09-22 10:50:16]:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm still getting used to the Debian way of doing things, so please
> > forgive me if this is a "stupid" question. But what package provides
> > the 'startx' command? I've got xfree86-common and xserver-xfree86
> > installed, but apparently, it's not either of those that provides it:
>
You can also use a utillity called apt-file, i find it quite useful.
Do a search apt-cache search apt- will show you some nifte features.
If you find an interesting package do apt-cache show 'exact packagename'
Kenneth
> You can use http://packages.debian.org/ to find which package it is in.
> The form you should use is named "Search the contents of packages".
>
> the easiest thing to do is to enter "bin/startx" and then just choose
> your release. Simple :-)
>
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> Michael Kristensen <tazz@wtf.dk>
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