I think your looking for the comand dpkg. You can do a man dpkg to find out a little more about the command. I use aptitude for Debian It's wonderful. Apt-get install aptitude and try it out. I think you'll be impressed.
Tim On Tuesday 24 August 2004 01:55 pm, you wrote: > For various reasons, I'm experimenting with Debian these days and > trying to get the hang of it after using mostly RedHat for my Linux > needs. I don't want to open a religious war on .rpm vs .deb, but is > there a dpkg or apt-* equivalent of "rpm -V"? For those who haven't > experienced the joy (*ahem*) of rpm, "rpm -V" compares the installed > version of the files in a package against what the RPM database thinks > they should look like. This includes checking things like the file > size, time stamps, permissions/ownerships, and an MD5 checksum on the > file. You can use it like a quick and dirty integrity checking tool, > ala AIDE or Tripwire. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
