Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few > things in the debian package management system. > 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is > part of, what's the best way to find out what package you need?
There's a search engine at the Debian homepage that works quite well for this. Start at http://packages.debian.org and then scroll down to the bottom of the page. > 2) Once you install a package, how can you get a listing of what files > in the system belong to that package? dpkg -L <name_of_package> > 3) How can you tell what installed package (if any) a particular file in > the system belongs to? dpkg -S <name_of_file> -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E | for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom.
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