On 12-Jun-99 Lex Chive wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 10:20:07PM -0000, Pollywog wrote: >> Very strange; I looked for the package on Debian's website, using the >> search >> facility, and I can't find the package that owns /usr/bin/file. >> I do have /usr/bin/file on my Potato system. > > I think this might serve as a useful trick when you dont know what package > owns a file...
Thanks, I did not know that trick. I did 'dpkg -S /usr/bin/file and when it told me file: /usr/bin/file I could not believe the name of the package was actually just "file". It was just too obvious to be true ;) -- Andrew
