David Wright composed on 2019-09-27 23:55 (UTC-0500): Thank you!
> On Sat 28 Sep 2019 at 00:19:00 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> apt search and aptitude search find it, but >> http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/ and >> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/ and >> https://sources.debian.org/prefix/x/ either don't have it, or it's hidden >> from >> view using a web browser. > You want http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-server/ Yi, yi yi. >> I tried installing it (in Buster), then examining it in /var/cache/apt/, but >> xserver-xorg-legacy was nowhere to be found. What controls whether packages >> are >> kept in the cache after installation? > apt-get doesn't clean by default. apt/aptitude probably do. Is there a way to choose the behavior other than typing apt-get instead of apt? >> I know what the package does generally, but I want to examine the package's >> content. What must I feed to wget to fetch it for examination? > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-server/xserver-xorg-legacy_1.20.4-1_amd64.deb >> Or, which of the >> confusion of Debian's package management tools can show me detail of what's >> in the >> files it contains without bothering to download for physical inspection, > apt-file, probably. That question didn't get finished. apt-file list lists the files, but what I was after was what was in the contained files, most likely better addressed by examining the source. In this case I was expecting something relatively simple, like changing of permissions on /usr/bin/Xorg and/or a simple script, not a 14k binary. >> or simply >> fetch without installing? > apt-get -d Again, thanks! -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/