Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc

[Haim Ashkenazi <haim@babysnakes.org>]

shorton wrote:

> Greetings:
> 
> Another RH to Debian convert question...
> 
> I'm used to rpm but clueless about apt, etc.  I've mostly gotten the
> hang of dselect I think.
> 
> Can someone tell me the equivilant these commands, and/or what to run
> to get the desired result:
> 
> rpm -qa = show all packages installed?
> 
> rpm -q --whatprovides xxxx = tell me what package provided program
> xxxxx
all of these can be achieved with 'apt-files', 'apt-cache' etc... but a very
easy and nice tool is dpkg-www which gives you a web interface for these
tasks.

Bye

> 
> Thanks very much for the education as I convert to debian!
> 
> Scott
> 
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