Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:14:07PM -0700, 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? > >I don't know of a way to do that (it would be nice, however).
If you grab the Contents-i386.gz (or whatever) file out of the archive - it's in dists/stable or dists/unstable, depending - then you can grep through that for whatever you need. I usually find that faster than the available search tools on the web. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
