> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:34:59 -0400
> From: Sebastien.Roy at Sun.COM
> Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] How to set up gnome terminal to respond to     
> page-up/page-down keys ?
> To: k_dal2 at hotmail.com
> CC: rich.teer at rite-group.com; peter.tribble at gmail.com; desktop-discuss 
> at opensolaris.org; Calum.Benson at Sun.COM
> 
> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 02:19 +0000, Karl Dalen wrote:
> > One feature that would be nice in IPS would be some way of finding out
> > what
> > package does a program or file belong to. Maybe there is and I've
> > missed it.
> > I sometimes find it hard to figure out what packages I need to install
> > for a
> > certain program.
> 
> You're in luck, because there is such a feature, the pkg search
> subcommand.  Use "-r" to search the repository for a package that
> contains a given token.  For example, "pkg search -r gnome-terminal".

Thanks for that information.

> You'll notice that "pkg search -r dtterm" indicates
> that /usr/dt/bin/dtterm isn't in the OpenSolaris IPS repository.  That's
> no accident.  It depends on Motif (as much of CDE does), which isn't
> redistributable.

OK, but Solaris Express DVD comes with the entire CDE so I suppose there
are regular pkgadd packages. It's just that they will not integrate them into 
IPS.

Regards,

/KarlD

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