Jari Aalto wrote on 2012-12-12: > On 2012-12-12 15:48, Aaron Schneider wrote: | On 12/12/2012 10:39, > Corinna Vinschen wrote: | >Oh boy, how long do we have this collisions? > For years, it seems. | | I request a feature to detect package > collision, and furthermore | suggest which package to install when an > user tries to run a program | which is not installed but is available > from a package. > > This helps: > > $ cygcheck --help > ... > -f, --find-package find the package to which FILE belongs > > $ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/ls > coreutils-8.15-1
That only works on files whose package is installed, unfortunately. http://www.cygwin.com/packages is the tool to use for this. -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com