On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 09:55:10PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > If I know a command, for example, compress, is it possible to use > dpkg to find out which package is this command belongs to?? And this > package may not be installed on the system.
No, you have to zgrep in the Contents.gz file, which is somewhere on the ftp site. Only if the package is installed, you can find it with "dpkg -S bin/command". Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
