*- On 12 Jun, Greg Starkes wrote about "Where is /usr/bin/file?" > I downloaded xmms 0.9 last night. make complained about not being able > to find /usr/bin/file. I used dpkg --search to see what packaged owned > it, and found nothing. Is this not a part of the debian distribution? I > noticed that RedHat has it. >
The --search won't help if you don't have the correct package installed unfortunately. If you want to find the package that has the file you can use the search engine "Search the Contents of the Latest Release" at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.html, or download a copy of the dist/stable/Contents-<$arch>.gz file to your local drive and search it, omit the leading slash. % zgrep usr/bin/file Contents-i386.gz usr/bin/file utils/file Therefor file is in its own package. Package: file Status: install ok installed Priority: standard Section: utils Installed-Size: 233 Maintainer: Nicolás Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 3.26-1 Depends: libc6 Conffiles: /etc/magic 272913026300e7ae9b5e2d51f138e674 Description: Determines file type using "magic" numbers File tests each argument in an attempt to classify it. There are three sets of tests, performed in this order: filesystem tests, magic number tests, and language tests. The first test that succeeds causes the file type to be printed. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
