On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Ken Martwick wrote: > Is there any reasonable way to locate an individual > Linux program that is missing on ones's system?
Generally you can download it from the distribution's web site... or in the case of rpms, from http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php Even if you don't have an rpm-based system, you can still retrieve stuff from a package. View it in mc, go to contents.cpio, highlight the file you want, and then hit F5 to copy it to wherever you want. Of course this entire process works with src.rpms too in the event you're looking to compile it yourself. > The par- > ticular program in question is "cmp" which I managed to > create with the help of the "busybox" source code, In rpm systems, this is found in the diffutils package. > but any > of the million or so small programs for which Linux is well > known would be a similar problem. rpmfind.net has all those millions. :-) - Steve
