Re: dpkg and ownership of a file
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 01:32:36PM -0500, Brad Stockdale wrote:
> I am a newbie to Debian and I made a booboo.. While prepping a system
> for production use, I accidentally overwrote /usr/include/unix.h with the
> unix.h that comes from the imap2002e library (used by PHP to enable it to
> use POP and IMAP protocols)...
>
> So, now I cant get some stuff to compile due to the header file being
> wrong...
>
> My initial thought was "Well, if Debian's package management is
> anything like Redhat's, I should be able to find out what package owns that
> file, and then I can reinstall the package."
>
> So, I do a:
>
> dpkg -S unix.h
>
> And it gives me no results... Well, gives me an auth_unix.h file, which
> isnt what I'm looking for...
>
> My question is: If Debian packages are just as good if not better than
> Redhat RPM's, then why can I not find out what package owns that file?
There's no /usr/include/unix.h anywhere in the distribution. Are you
sure you're looking for the right file?
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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