Re: Securing it properly
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:37:12AM -0600, Jacob S. wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 00:12:32 -0600
> "David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b@dd-b.net> wrote:
> > The apt-get tool, from what little I've seen so far, is quite nice. I
> > didn't find dependencies especially hard to manage in RedHat, though,
> > and apt-get seems to sacrifice the *really really useful* rpm -ql and
> > rpm -qf capabilities (asking for all the files in a package, and
> > asking for what package a file came from). At least I haven't found
> > how to do it yet.
>
> dpkg -L <package_name> - lists the files installed by 'package_name'
>
> dpkg -S <file_name> - lists the package(s) that contain files matching
> the 'file_name' you entered.
>
> "man dpkg" for some more really helpful tools. It's not part of apt, but
> still uses Debian's great package management system.
You have it backwards. :) dpkg *is* Debian's package management system,
and apt uses it to perform all its fundamental package management
operations.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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