On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: > Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few > things in the debian package management system. > 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is > part of, what's the best way to find out what package you need?
I don't know of a way to do that (it would be nice, however). > 2) Once you install a package, how can you get a listing of what files > in the system belong to that package? dpkg -L <packagename> > 3) How can you tell what installed package (if any) a particular file in > the system belongs to? dpkg -S </path/filename> -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen