Re: files contained by a package that is not installed

2002-10-09 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:22:59AM +0200, Claudio Bley wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 04:33, Diego Biurrun wrote: > > The problem is that sometimes there is no web browser or net connection > > available and I just prefer working from the command line. apt-file > > almost fulfills my needs, but it

Re: files contained by a package that is not installed

2002-10-09 Thread Claudio Bley
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 04:33, Diego Biurrun wrote: > The problem is that sometimes there is no web browser or net connection > available and I just prefer working from the command line. apt-file > almost fulfills my needs, but it does only the reverse thing, look up > in which package a file is to

files contained by a package that is not installed

2002-10-08 Thread Diego Biurrun
Hello! I would like to know what files a specific package contains. For an installed package this is easily achieved by dpkg -L But for a package that is not installed I have to go to http://packages.debian.org and "Search the contents of packages" for "all files in this package". The