>How about the equivalent of this but for a package that is not >installed? Now that would really interest me a lot!
not sure if this what you mean, but: apt-cache search <regex> will list packages that you can get via apt-get, where <regex> is a regular expression that matches what you are looking for. HTH. Josh Coates www.jcoates.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Phillip Hellewell Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:13 PM To: BYU Unix Users Group Subject: Re: [uug] rpm to debian translation guide > > rpm -qil # show all the files in a package > > dpkg -L <package> How about the equivalent of this but for a package that is not installed? Now that would really interest me a lot! Phillip P.S. Yes, I know I could just install whatever and then remove it later, but that's not what I'm looking for. -- Phillip Hellewell <phillip AT hellewell.homeip.net> -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
