On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 23:05, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the words of the great philosopher Homer, D'oh! well, it's not the solution you were looking for, but as the perl folks put it, there's more than one way to do it =) > I wonder why that never showed up while I was Googling. I never thought > to look in Synaptic. Thanks for pointing it out. man, i hate firing up synaptic to search. i found it in 3 seconds with 'apt-cache search transcribe'. another nifty tool which would have worked even better (had the utility you started out looking for been part of any of my repos) is apt-file (which searches in the list of filenames that could get installed with packages (vs dpkg -S which can search only in actually installed filenames)). it's handy because, for instance, you can figure out that some random program you saw once belongs to some completely other package (apt-file search pnmarith => netpbm). it's one of the first packages i install after any ubuntu or debian installation (see also: openssh-server, screen, vim). > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
