On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:19:16PM EST, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 16:40 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > Is there a debian utility that returns the name of a package that ships > > a given program..? > > > > ie. - You're looking for program "pgm" .. so you type "whichpkg pgm" > > from the prompt and the whichpkg utility returns the name of the > > package(s). > > This command will give you anything that has reference to "pgm" in it. > > apt-cache search pgm > > Now if you were actually looking for "pgm" > > apt-file search pgm > > Currently that gives me 745 lines of return.
.. which is next to useless .. > Most programs related to pgm are usually like "pgmedge" or "pgmnorm" > or "somethingtopgm" or "pgmtosomething" Thanks for clarifying. > Most of these come from the "netpbm" package. "dvi2pgm" is from the > package "tex-guy" > > So, I guess what do you really want? My beef being that there is no utility that helps you quickly locate the package that contains a given executable .. Or did I miss something? Thanks cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
