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Re: Bad fortune



On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:39:54PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> [/usr/games/fortune now works as expected]

dpkg -L is a nice trick.   also, try -S 'filename' if you want to know
what package owns a particular file.

> I looked before and did not see this directory. Neither did locate
> fortune turn up any entries

that's because locate is run once a day from cron, and probably hadn't
been updated yet.  something else you can do with programs in particular
is

$ which programname 

(if it's in your path), and alternatively

$ whereis programname 

(which searches a few more places as well)



	sean

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