On Saturday 11 February 2012 22:27:34 Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 05:54:57PM -0000, Rob Malpass wrote:
> > I've gone into synaptic and installed everything I can see for libpcap
> > but the file still hasn't appeared.   This is the right procedure isn't
> > it? What should my next move be?   I've never understood libraries and
> > dependencies on Linux - that's why I switched from Slackware to Ubuntu a
> > few years back.   There is a simh package in synaptic but this hasn't
> > installed the file either.
>
> On Debian:
>
> $ apt-file search libpcap.a
> libpcap0.8-dev: /usr/lib/libpcap.a

Simpler (also on Debian):

lisi@Junior:~$ aptitude search simh
p   simh                                 - Emulators for 33 different 
computers
lisi@Junior:~$

Lisi


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