Re: Querying packages about installed files

[Andrei Popescu <andreimp@rdslink.ro>]

I'm not much further ahead of you, so let me give you one last tip, if 
you didn't find it out by yourself already: apt-cache searches also by 
package description. This is one feature i would like to have in 
aptitude (if it's there i missed it, though i went twice through the 
docs). The package name is often not very obvious.

Andrei

Jim Holland wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Thanks very much to everyone for the useful feedback.  As a newcomer to
> Debian, it is fascinating to see the added functionality that it has, but
> not always clear to know where to look to find it.
>
> I was telling someone how impressed I was with the way Debian managed
> installing source packages, extracting the files and even patching them
> for you, then saying how easy it was to identify and install the necessary
> libraries that were required.  He came back a little sardonically, saying
> "Well, if it's that good, why didn't it sort out the dependencies
> automatically?".  And of course I then found that there was even an option
> to do that - with the apt-get build-dep option.
>
> Regards
>
> Jim Holland
> System Administrator
> MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service
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