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Re: Confusion with Package Name



PRAKHAR gaur wrote:
> For that I need certain packages, I know about "build-essentials", "module-init-tools".
> The author mentions  "kernel-devel"in Fedora, what is the equivalent one in Debian?

The kernel is extra special.  But for normal packages you can install
all of the build dependencies with

  $ sudo apt-get build-dep $SOMEPACKAGENAME

Such as:

  $ sudo apt-get build-dep gzip

> If at any time I want to search if a package is present in Debian or not, how do I search for it?
> as eg. Software called ABCB, has Debian package name abc.deb.
> How do I get to know that ABCB is named abc.deb   ?

Use apt-cache search for it.

  $ apt-cache search abc

Bob

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