Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-13 Thread Chris Davies
David Guntner dav...@akamail.net wrote: Thanks to both you and Neal for the replies. Interesting to see the multiple ways of getting the same information. :-) They do different things and (for me anyway) give different results. Consider the package cltl that I do not have installed: $

apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread David Guntner
Hello, Mandriva refugee here. :-) New to Debian, but have been using some form of *NIX since 1986. Have been a happy Mandriva user since the Mandrake 7 days, but that new company that purchased it, resulting in them losing most of their talent, has finally caused me to leave; the last update to

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday, November 11, 2012 04:59:34 PM David Guntner wrote: Hello, Mandriva refugee here. :-) New to Debian, but have been using some form of *NIX since 1986. Have been a happy Mandriva user since the Mandrake 7 days, but that new company that purchased it, resulting in them losing most

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
Hello, Mandriva refugee here. :-) New to Debian, but have been using some form of *NIX since 1986. - 8 - It will spit back a list of all packages that provide that filename or any part of it. It's treated like a substring - for example if I type urpmf

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread David Guntner
Andreas Rönnquist grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [I wrote]: It will spit back a list of all packages that provide that filename or any part of it. It's treated like a substring - for example if I type urpmf kross it will list the package that provides /usr/bin/kross, and will then go on to

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-11 Thread Kushal Kumaran
David Guntner dav...@akamail.net writes: Andreas Rönnquist grabbed a keyboard and wrote: [I wrote]: It will spit back a list of all packages that provide that filename or any part of it. It's treated like a substring - for example if I type urpmf kross it will list the package that provides