Re: Aptitude/apt search question

2008-07-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 15:35:28 +0100, Bob Cox wrote: > I may be missing the blindingly obvious, so apologies if so. > > I wanted to run the 'ip' command and found it wasn't installed on the > particular box I was using. As it was installed on another machine I > was able to: > >[EMAIL PROT

Re: Aptitude/apt search question

2008-07-17 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 17:42:58 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > man apt-file Steve, Eugene - many thanks. Have just installed apt-file and will have a play with it now. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - htt

Re: Aptitude/apt search question

2008-07-17 Thread Steve Kemp
> However, if I hadn't had it installed on that other machine, how could I > have discovered which package I needed *without* using the excellent > package search facility at > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents - is this sort of > search possible with aptitude and/or apt-cache

Re: Aptitude/apt search question

2008-07-17 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Cox wrote: > I may be missing the blindingly obvious, so apologies if so. > > I wanted to run the 'ip' command and found it wasn't installed on the > particular box I was using. As it was installed on another machine I > was able to: > >[EMA