A long similar lines, I have just installed my first Debian install with redhat you could query the db to see what package a file belonged to like
rpm -qf /etc/sendmail.cf is there a similar tool under Debian Also how do I go about changing the hostname of the machine, including the domain. Can I just change the /etc/hostname or should that only be the hostname part or do I change /etc/hosts Ta Alex -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Erik de Castro Lopo Sent: Saturday, 1 June 2002 9:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] List of available packages : debian On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 09:07:38 +1000 "ramon buckland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi peoples, > > Is there a way ( and I assume so. ) to browse the list of > the available packages in Debian (from the /var/lib/dpkg/available) > > Without doing my current method of 'less /var/lib/dpkg/available' :-) > > I thinking of maybe a search/query tool in maybe console and or X > format. apt-cache search XXXXX Where XXXX is a keyword. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Java : A language from the C family of languages. It has all the bad features of C++ but without the most powerful feature of C, pointers. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
