On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:07:50PM +, Simon Hepburn wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 Mar 2002 5:15 am, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >
> > What about listing packages in cache that are not installed
> > Browsing over man apt-get apt-cache dbkg I didn't notice a command
> > that lists all the packages onboard
On Wednesday 06 Mar 2002 5:15 am, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> What about listing packages in cache that are not installed
> Browsing over man apt-get apt-cache dbkg I didn't notice a command
> that lists all the packages onboard that are not installed.
Why would you want to do that at the command lin
Simon Hepburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 7:25 am, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> If I have the name of a file like xpm.h and want to know what package
>> contains it. And I find that `apt-cache search xpm.h' doesn't know
>> about it.
>
> apt-cache search only checks package name
* will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020305 13:24]:
> > check out apt-file.
>
> unless you have potato.
>
> $ apt-cache search apt-file
> $
>
> maybe you're using woody or sid?
Correct, my bad. apt-file is pretty new; I think it's only in unstable
so far. In potato, I don't know of
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:25:06PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> If I have the name of a file like xpm.h and want to know what package
> contains it. And I find that `apt-cache search xpm.h' doesn't know
> about it.
>
> And dpkg -S xpm.h doesn't either
>
> I'm assuming that means it isn't here bu
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:03:28AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Harry Putnam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020304 23:26]:
> >
> > If I have the name of a file like xpm.h and want to know what package
> > contains it. And I find that `apt-cache search xpm.h' doesn't know
> > about it.
> >
> > And dpkg -
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Install auto-apt, do auto-apt update and then you can search like this:$
Thanks Johann. Thats cool.
I posted a dumb reply moments ago without having tried this. Please
ignore it.
Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:25:06PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>
>> If I have the name of a file like xpm.h and want to know what package
>> contains it. And I find that `apt-cache search xpm.h' doesn't know
>> about it.
>
> Install auto-apt, do auto-
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:06:03AM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
> > If I have the name of a file like xpm.h and want to know what package
> > contains it. And I find that `apt-cache search xpm.h' doesn't know
> > about it.
> >
> > And dpkg -S xpm.h doesn't either
>
> I'm
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:25:06PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> If I have the name of a file like xpm.h and want to know what package
> contains it. And I find that `apt-cache search xpm.h' doesn't know
> about it.
Install auto-apt, do auto-apt update and then you can search like this:
$ aut
Harry Putnam wrote:
> If I have the name of a file like xpm.h and want to know what package
> contains it. And I find that `apt-cache search xpm.h' doesn't know
> about it.
>
> And dpkg -S xpm.h doesn't either
I'm not sure about this, but don't you have to give the complete path, so
dpkg -S /pa
* Harry Putnam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020304 23:26]:
>
> If I have the name of a file like xpm.h and want to know what package
> contains it. And I find that `apt-cache search xpm.h' doesn't know
> about it.
>
> And dpkg -S xpm.h doesn't either
>
> I'm assuming that means it isn't here but might
On Tuesday 05 Mar 2002 7:25 am, Harry Putnam wrote:
> If I have the name of a file like xpm.h and want to know what package
> contains it. And I find that `apt-cache search xpm.h' doesn't know
> about it.
apt-cache search only checks package names and descriptions
> And dpkg -S xpm.h doesn't eit
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