Subject: Re: apt-get problem & where is program x?
Date: Tue, May 25, 1999 at 07:00:56PM +0800
In reply to:Paul Harris
Quoting Paul Harris([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> hi,
>
> it seems obvious to me, but whenever i am missing a program like startx,
> xterm, rgrep, libXpm, etc i just grep the Contents file:
>
> <download Contents-i386.gz>
> (or whatever for your architecture)
> this is in dists/slink/
>
>
> zgrep xterm Contents-i386.gz | less
>
> if you get HEAPS of results, narrow it down with
>
> zgrep xterm Contents-i386.gz | grep bin | less
>
> and there will be the package name, no stress.
>
> Paul
You are so right Paul! Here are some another ways.
/var/state/apt/lists/ Contains the Package files for your dist/'s
so grep or less the Package files and you know what all the packages
contain. Might even find out something you want is there!
Want to find out if you have a package installed and don't want to use
dpkg or dselect?
less /var/lib/dpkg/status It knows all!
Now if only these tips could go into an FAQ maybe my mailbox wouldn't be
overflowing. Even little frogs could mail less.
Wayne
--
In a five year period we can get one superb programming language. Only
we can't control when the five year period will begin.
_______________________________________________________
Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
