On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:39:54PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > [/usr/games/fortune now works as expected]
dpkg -L is a nice trick. also, try -S 'filename' if you want to know
what package owns a particular file.
> I looked before and did not see this directory. Neither did locate
> fortune turn up any entries
that's because locate is run once a day from cron, and probably hadn't
been updated yet. something else you can do with programs in particular
is
$ which programname
(if it's in your path), and alternatively
$ whereis programname
(which searches a few more places as well)
sean
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