On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 15:25:14 -0400 John Harrold <jmh17@pitt.edu> wrote: > Sometime in August Jacob S. assaulted the keyboard and produced: > > | I agree it can be a little confusing at times. > | > | A quick search on packages.debian.org for "date::format" returned > the| following: > | > | usr/share/man/man3/Date::Format.3pm.gz - > interpreters/libtimedate-perl > > So is this the defacto way of doing this? The only reason I ask is > because'apt-cache search date::format' returned nothing for me. I've > migraged all of our servers over to Debian, and I'm very pleased with > it. Though, I'm not yet familiar with all of the nuances. No, it's simply one way of doing things. When searching for package names, I prefer apt-cache search to using the web interface. When searching for filenames in packages that are already installed, I like dpkg -S. It looks like apt-file would replace my use of the website above, I just haven't played with it yet. As I said though, those are just my preferences. There's almost always 3 or 4 ways of doing things in Debian. HTH, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #64: Windows: 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition. Linux: The ultimate windows patch. http://www.linux.org/
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