Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-13 Thread Chris Davies
David Guntner wrote: > Thanks to both you and Neal for the replies. Interesting to see the > multiple ways of getting the same information. :-) They do different things and (for me anyway) give different results. Consider the package "cltl" that I do not have installed: $ apt-file search cl

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread Kushal Kumaran
David Guntner writes: > Andreas Rönnquist grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >>[I wrote]: >>> >>> It will spit back a list of all packages that provide that filename or >>> any part of it. It's treated like a substring - for example if I type >>> "urpmf kross" it will list the package that provides /

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread David Guntner
Andreas Rönnquist grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >[I wrote]: >> >> It will spit back a list of all packages that provide that filename or >> any part of it. It's treated like a substring - for example if I type >> "urpmf kross" it will list the package that provides /usr/bin/kross, >> and will then

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
> Hello, > > Mandriva refugee here. :-) New to Debian, but have been using some > form of *NIX since 1986. - 8< - > It will spit back a list of all packages that provide that filename or > any part of it. It's treated like a substring - for example if I type > "ur

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 11, 2012 04:59:34 PM David Guntner wrote: > Hello, > > Mandriva refugee here. :-) New to Debian, but have been using some form > of *NIX since 1986. Have been a happy Mandriva user since the Mandrake > 7 days, but that new company that purchased it, resulting in them losing >

apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread David Guntner
Hello, Mandriva refugee here. :-) New to Debian, but have been using some form of *NIX since 1986. Have been a happy Mandriva user since the Mandrake 7 days, but that new company that purchased it, resulting in them losing most of their talent, has finally caused me to leave; the last update to