Re: APT-GET UPGRADE VS DIST-UPGRADE

[Leonard Chatagnier <lenc@ruralcomm.com>]

James Vahn wrote:

> Leonard wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Thanks James Vahn, for your reply.  I'm not sure what's the difference
> > between KDE and kde, meta package.
> >    
>
> KDE = K Desktop Environment  (huge thing)
> kde = dummy meta-package     (tiny little nothing)
>
> Meta-packages have dependancies. In fact, those dependancies can be more
> meta-packages. Like "kdeaddons", for example. It is those secondary
> meta-packages that actually install KDE through dependancies of their
> own.
>
> Let's list the files in the kde package:
> user:~$ dlocate -L kde
>        /.
>        /usr
>        /usr/share
>        /usr/share/doc
>        /usr/share/doc/kde
>        /usr/share/doc/kde/README.Debian
>        /usr/share/doc/kde/copyright
>        /usr/share/doc/kde/changelog.gz
>
> That's it, not much there, :-)
>
>
>
>  
Thanks for the info to enlighten a newbie.  However, I don't seem to 
have the command dlocate.
I use bash all the time and have not attempted the others availabe.  
What terminal command system
is it from?
Len