Greg Starkes wrote: > > 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.
just fired up dselect -> select -> /file, that revealed (on slink) file version 3.26-1 in ´Standard packages in section utils´. also, if you search for file in www.debian.org/distrib/packages you will be successful. hafi