Thanks, that's useful

On Jan 15, 2013, at 2:31 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:

> On 1/15/2013 5:14 PM, Cook, Rich wrote:
>> Hello, Finksters,
>> 
>> I have two related questions.
>> 
>> 1)  If I need to install /sw/lib/libsomething.so, is there a command
>> I can run to see if it's contained in a fink package and which
>> package I therefore need to install?
> 
> There's no official way to know what package includes a file you're 
> interested in.  Unofficially, the file lists for the last buildworld I ran on 
> the 10.4 tree are available in searchable mode here:
> 
> http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2010-08-14/search.html
> 
> This is from 2.5 years ago, so many new packages have been created since then 
> which won't show up in the results, but it is a starting point.
> 
> http://www.snaggledworks.com/fink/buildworld/2012-05-07/search.html has the 
> 10.7 archive.
> 
>> 2)  If /sw/lib/libsomething.so is already installed, is there a way
>> to query to see what package it belongs to?  Kind of like rpm -qf ?
> 
> dpkg -S <string> will tell you what packages have an installed file that 
> includes <string> in its name.
> 
> Hanspeter

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