Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I was missing a package when I installed Debian from a LiveDVD. I'm > trying to figure out what package to log a bug against. This sounds like a simple misunderstanding. Debian is a framework. It is the Universial Operating System. Installing Debian sets up some defaults. Installing debian does not install every available package. That would be unmanageable because there are 40,000 plus packages in debian. Installing Debian in the smallest form simply gives you the a small system. Installing Debian with a graphical desktop installs a much more heavy system with many things installed. Mostly a system with the typical things that a user would want. But it is impossible to install every package available. Instead you are expected to install any particular thing that you want installed afterward. For example I am an emacs user. I will install emacs. apt-get install emacs Other people prefer vim. They wouldn't care about emacs. But they will want vim installed. apt-get install vim And many want the graphical version and so will choose the gtk version. apt-get install vim-gtk To search for packages use: apt-cache search foo This should get you going. Simply install what you want. > The bug appears to be against the distribution or Live DVD, but I'm > not finding any suitable candidates: > > $ dpkg --search core | cut -d ":" -f1 | sort | uniq > app-install-data > ... Uhm... I like that you are barging ahead with the command line. You are my newest BFF! But it appears you are looking for any installed package that contains a file that contains "core" anywhere in the file name. That will of course yield many matches. But probably it won't get you any closer to an answer to your problem. Since if a package were installed then it wouldn't be missing. > I've searched for 'core', 'distribution, 'live', and a couple of others. > > Would anyone know what to file a missing package against? A missing package? Please say more. There are 40,000+ packages in Debian. Can we narrow things down a bit? Often new projects appear and are not yet packaged. If software you would like to have isn't packaged for Debian then you can file a RFP request for packaging bug. But if you care about it then often it is best to try to package it up yourself. The mentors mailing list will help with this process. Otherwise if you are looking for a package that is in the Debian repository then don't use dpkg which searches installed packages. Use apt-cache which searches the index files. (It gets its name from the fact that it searches the downloaded cached Packages files.) Bob $ apt-cache stats Total package names: 54288 (1086 k) Total package structures: 54288 (3040 k) Normal packages: 41530 Pure virtual packages: 599 Single virtual packages: 5207 Mixed virtual packages: 599 Missing: 6353 Total distinct versions: 45108 (3248 k) Total distinct descriptions: 85048 (2041 k) Total dependencies: 282744 (7917 k) Total ver/file relations: 84789 (2035 k) Total Desc/File relations: 85048 (2041 k) Total Provides mappings: 8742 (175 k) Total globbed strings: 144 (1621 ) Total dependency version space: 1102 k Total slack space: 22.8 k Total space accounted for: 16.4 M
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