On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:44:37AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > Bob Miller wrote: > (Is there an easy way to find that out in Debian? I.e., if I want a > program called foo, is there a way to find out what uninstalled > packages might provide foo? In this case, apt-cache search didn't > find anything.)
The only way I know of is doing the web page search: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages or packages.debian.org When one does an "apt-get update" only package descriptions and releases are stored locally (in /var/lib/apt/lists). No file listings. However, there is a package called auto-apt which will trap file requests and if a file is accessed that does not exist, but is in an uninstalled package it will download it and install it. I haven't used it, but that's what the description says. http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/auto-apt.html Cory _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
