Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > That only works if you've already installed mesa-utils. > > That's not true -- it works whenever you run apt-get/aptitude update. Of > course, it's just sheer luck that glxgears are mentioned in mesa-utils > description, for this (searching where particular program is coming from) > http://packages.debian.org or apt-file would be more robust alternative. > > Matěj
Of course, but I noticed that many such cumulative packages list the contained utilities in their description. Not that I was consciously thinking about it, it must have been in the back of my mind. Besides, apt-cache was just the first search I tried, because it's the fastest. apt-file is not installed by default (though I have it now since packages.d.o was down), and you have to make sure its database is up to date. packages.d.o would have been a bit faster. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
