Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes: > Jude DaShiell <jdash...@shellworld.net> wrote: > >> My bad, I was missing texinfo package and thought that had already been >> installed. Once that got installed, everything works as well as it did >> earlier this year. If I knew what path that error took, I'd write what >> might be a better error message for it asking for the texinfo package to >> be installed. > > Here is a useful command that you can use on Debian and Ubuntu systems > in situations like this: > > $ dpkg -S makeinfo > texinfo: /usr/bin/makeinfo > octave3.2-common: /usr/share/octave/3.2.4/m/help/__makeinfo__.m > emacs23-common: /usr/share/emacs/23.1/lisp/textmodes/makeinfo.elc > texinfo: /usr/share/man/man1/makeinfo.1.gz
This only works for installed packages, though, as it searches the files below /var/lib/dpkg/info, IIRC. BTW, dpkg forwards that request to dpkg-query. > [...] > > $ goo > The program 'goo' is currently not installed. To run 'goo' please ask your > administrator to install the package 'goo' In which case `apt-cache show goo` may be of help. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962