on Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few
> things in the debian package management system.
> 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is
> part of, wh
Jeff Hornsberger wrote:
> Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few
> things in the debian package management system.
> 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is
> part of, what's the best way to find out what package you need?
There's a
Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few
things in the debian package management system.
1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is
part of, what's the best way to find out what package you need?
2) Once you install a package, how can you
> > dpkg -S file
> >
> > will tell you if a file exists in an installed package
> >
> > apt-cache search string
> >
> > will search package name and descriptions
> >
>
> I was under the impression that one can search local caches of all
> available packages NOT just those you have installed a
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Damien wrote:
> > If you grab the Contents-i386.gz (or whatever) file out of the archive -
> > it's in dists/stable or dists/unstable, depending - then you can grep
> > through that for whatever you need. I usually find that faster than the
> > available search tools on the
> If you grab the Contents-i386.gz (or whatever) file out of the archive -
> it's in dists/stable or dists/unstable, depending - then you can grep
> through that for whatever you need. I usually find that faster than the
> available search tools on the web.
debian provides all the necessary tools
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote:
>> Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few
>> things in the debian package management system.
>> 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what packag
> 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is
> part of, what's the best way to find out what package you need?
Have a look at www.debian.org in the Package section, there is a search
tool for this.
Francois
Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote:
> > Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few
> > things in the debian package management system.
> > 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is
> > p
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote:
> > Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few
> > things in the debian package management system.
> > 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote:
> Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few
> things in the debian package management system.
> 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is
> part of, what's the best way to f
Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few
things in the debian package management system.
1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is
part of, what's the best way to find out what package you need?
2) Once you install a package, how can you
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