Your local dpkg database only contains paths for what was installed. It handles uninstalled packages by name only.
On Feb 13, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Robert Citek wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2006, at 10:06 AM, AgentM wrote: >> http://packages.ubuntu.com/ >> >> allows searching package contents in case you don't have a particular >> package installed. > > That worked! Here's the query URL: > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=%2Flib% > 2Fmodules%2F2.6.12-9-386% > 2Fbuild&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=breezy&arch=i3 > 86 > > and along with an 'apt-get install gcc-3.4', everything compiled just > fine on Ubuntu 5.10. > > Out of curiosity, is there a command line way to do the same? Or is > the website the only way? > > Thanks for the pointers. |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
