On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 01:44:34AM -0500, J wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 01:20, Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 05:47:13AM -0000, dbneeley wrote: > > > > > >> > > It handles dependencies, gives you ways to work around > > them, and has one nice featuer that may or may not be in apt, the > > "provides"--for example, if you try to build a package and get > > libwhatever.so.5-1/2 not found, you can run > > > > yum provides */libwhatever.so.5-1/2. > > > > It will then search its database, and come back whatever packages may > > provide this particular library. > > > For those of us who no longer wear the Red Fedora, there is apt-file like so: > > blade...@klaatu:~$ apt-file search /lib32/libdrm.so.2 > ia32-libs: /lib32/libdrm.so.2 > ia32-libs: /lib32/libdrm.so.2.4.0 > Ah, very handy. Thank you Jeff.
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