On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 23:53 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi > > based on many favourable comments about ubuntu I decided to try it, ummm > > quite > > painfull: > > > > I downloaded 6.06 server and installed. > > apt-get install ubuntu-desktop > > Why download server and the convert it to a desktop? > > > How do you get a list of packages and meta-packages that you can apt-get? > > apt-cache search . > > > How do you find out WHAT is in a package. EG I got various lame bits before > > I > > got the development libraries needed to build mythtv? (rpm -ql) > > Assuming the package is already installed: > > dpkg -L package > > YOu can map a file name to the package it came from using: > > dpkg -S /full/path/filename > > > How do I find (in rpm speak) whatprovides -lXv ? > > There might be a better way, but I use this: > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages > > Erik > -- > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > Erik de Castro Lopo > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > "A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn > from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime." > -- Steve McConnell (in Rapid Development)
Or you could use aptitude ? -------------- # Charles Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.avargo.com/wordpress # # Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 kernel 2.6.15-23-386 i686 1500MB RAM # # 00:58:40 up 4:35, 4 users, load average: 0.17, 0.28, 0.22 # -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
