Re: Debian Package Finder, where? SUCCESS !!
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:50:32 +0100, Bill Goudie <bgoudie@mail.com> wrote:
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> wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/<release>/Contents-<arch>.gz
> zgrep <file> Contents-<arch>.gz
Thank you. Thank you. Finally a method that works !!
Just to summarize everything I've tried and failed:
Debian Package Problems
1. Searching for a package, knowing only the name of a file.
dpkg -search <filename> -- installed packages only.
apt-cache search <pattern> -- doesn't search *contents*, only descriptions.
www.apt-get.org/search.php -- returns nothing, even on files known to exist
www.debian.org/distrib/packages.en.html -- down "at the moment", but I've
never been able to get this to work.
Google search on site:www.debian.org -- package contents are not listed.
zgrep <filename> Contents-i386.gz -- This Works !! Need to get latest
Contents file from
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/<release>/Contents-<arch>.gz
For the future:
Wouldn't it be nice if debian.org just listed the contents of each package
on a webpage. Then we could use Google for these searches. Why do so many
websites have their own home-brew search engines, when Google will do the
job much faster and more reliably?
-- Dave
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