On 03/29/2011 10:12 AM, Joseph Areeda wrote: > That is one of my issues that I'm looking for a solution. Most > package names are meaningless to me and my research on what they are > is hoping for something informative in the first few pages of google.
This will happen, I am afraid, continuously -- no visible way to connect an application/programme/file to a package. One easy way is to run 'synaptic' or the Ubuntu Software Centre, search for the package name, and read the description. Yeah, I know, succinct, but a step in the right direction. Sometimes we need to go the other way -- from a programme name (or, generically, *any* file) to a package. There are some ways to do it also: you have the *programme* (or a file) name -- then you can use any of the following on a terminal * dpkg -S <string> Replace <string> by whatever you want to find. 'dpkg' is the low-level package manager; it can do a *lot* of different things, see 'man dpkg'. One of these possible use is to _search_ for a string. The major shortcoming is it can only search on the *installed* (on the machine it is running) packages. * apt-file search <string> Similar to 'dpkg -S' but it will search on all packages you have visibility to (i.e., from the repositories listed on /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*). You will need to install it first, it is not part of the default Ubuntu offerings: sudo apt-get install apt-file Of course, there are still some issues: you will get a line in output for *each* time the <string> appears. For example, on Natty, if I search for 'ubuntu', I get 9,451 lines showing packages (and files) where the string 'ubuntu' appears. More later. ..C..
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