Hi Alex & Ramon, ramon buckland wrote: > Is there a way ( and I assume so. ) to browse the list of > the available packages in Debian
`dpkg -l` is useful for a quick view. If you find something you like in the list try `apt-cache show <package-name>` for the stuff you'd be seeing in /var/lib/dpkg/available. Also see gnome-apt for a GUI package browser. Alex Samad wrote: > 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 `man dpkg`, or `dpkg --help` may help. Briefly, you can do; To list all files owned by the named package: # dpkg -L postfix To find the package that owns the named file: # dpkg -S /etc/postfix/main.cf > Also how do I go about changing the hostname of the machine, including the > domain. See `man hostname` for this one. Cheers, - Andrew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
