http://bhami.com/rosetta.htmlI have found a couple of times so far that dselect was asked to install a package, it queued the package but failed to install it.
This is a cool resource that compares all the different unixes and shows how to do the same thing in each.
Maybe it needs linux broken down into the major base distributions?
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 27 February 2004 7:55 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: deb/apt questions
on a debian system, how do I
1. find out what package a file belongs to
(equivalent rpm command rpm -qf /etc/passwd, gentoo command qpkg -f /etc/passwd)
2. find out what version of a package is installed
(equivalent rpm command rpm -q postfix, gentoo command etcat -v postfix)
Sorry no man pages on this debian install, its pebble, a cut down version, made small by stripping the man pages and other docs.
This happened to me when I tried to install PHP4 on Apache, dselect kept saying it was "to install": but not why each time it simply did not install it. Eventually I found out about apt-get and installed it myself.
