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Re: dpkg and ownership of a file



Man... Hmmm. If there's not then I really hosed up php somehow. Lol... I'll give it another whirl to see what happens.

Thanks for the quick reply!!

Brad


At 01:47 PM 1/8/2004, you wrote:
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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