On 1 May, D. R. Evans wrote:
> On 1 May 01, at 15:14, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote:
>
>> Command Line:
>>
>> $ whereis nslookup
>> nslookup: /usr/bin/nslookup /usr/share/man/man8/nslookup.8.bz2
>>
>>
>> $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/nslookup
>> bind-utils-9.1.1-1mdk
>>
>>
>
> Well, yes. If you happen to be looking for certain classes of files
> that happen to be in some more-or-less standard place. It's better than
> nothing, but not really much of a replacement when you can think of
> only a substring, which is typically the way that I use the graphical
> thingy.
>
This works well if the file you're looking for is installed already. My
problem is that the file isn't installed and I want to find it. In 7.2, I
could do a search for the file and it would tell me what package needs to be
installed in order to have that file on my system. This is no longer
feasible in the Software Manager.
All the other suggestions I got (thanks!) required me to load up the CD and
search the manifest file (oir its equivalent) to locate my program. It's
doable but not as user friendly as what was available in 7.2.
I haven't tried the KDE version of the package manager so maybe I'll try
that next time. I also wasn't aware that dip and host were replacements for
nslookup. I'll take a look at that also.
Thanks to all!
L
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