On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:23:41AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > John McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Carl Fink wrote: > >> It should, I grant you, but have you tried "dpkg -S"? > > > >here's a nasty one: > > > >> expectk > >bash: expectk: command not found > > > >root> dpkg -S expectk > >dpkg: *expectk* not found. > > Ah, here you have a different search facility ;) > > dpkg -S searches the system for packages owning a particular file. If > you want to search for package names, try 'dpkg -l *expectk*' or > 'apt-cache search expectk' (the latter searches descriptions as well).
...and *I* just learned something. Thanks. > If you want functionality like rpm's --whatprovides, the easiest way is > probably to install the grep-dctrl package. Then you can do something > like: > > grep-available -FProvides expectk ...and another. > ... or, for more concise output: > > grep-available -FProvides -nsPackage expectk ...that's three things this evening. Much grass, muchos gracias, or whatever. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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