RE: finding the right package

2002-09-11 Thread David Pastern
I'm not 100% sure on this but i'll give it a shot and suggest something: apt-cache search Dave -Original Message- From: Phil Reardon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 10 September 2002 7:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Pastern Subject: finding the right package How do y

Re: finding the right package

2002-09-10 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:22:29AM -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2002-09-10 15:40:54, Phil Reardon wrote: > > How do you find which package might contain something you need? I need > > glib-config-2.0 (so I can configure fribidi, which is needed to compile > > abiword from source). I do not know

Re: finding the right package

2002-09-10 Thread Matthias Szupryczynski
Phil Reardon wrote: > How do you find which package might contain something you need? Have a look at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages , you will find search facilities there that allow you to search the package directory or to search the contents of available packages. > I need glib-confi

Re: finding the right package

2002-09-10 Thread Allan Wind
On 2002-09-10 15:40:54, Phil Reardon wrote: > How do you find which package might contain something you need? I need > glib-config-2.0 (so I can configure fribidi, which is needed to compile > abiword from source). I do not know what package to get. Thanks for > any suggestions. PCR `apt-cach