On 12-Jun-99 Brian Servis wrote: > *- 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
That explains the result I got on my system. Same as above. thanks -- Andrew
