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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.3
Severity: normal
base64 is apparently supposed to be part of gnu coreutils
http://josefsson.org/base64/
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/base64-invocation.html#index-base64-191
but apparently isn't, the debian coreutils package description doesn't hint at
where to find it.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:51:15PM +1200, jasen wrote:
base64 is apparently supposed to be part of gnu coreutils
Not in coreutils 5.97. Try "mimencode" from the metamail package.
Mike Stone
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