[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
> based on many favourable comments about ubuntu I decided to try it, ummm
> quite
> painfull:
>
> I downloaded 6.06 server and installed.
> apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
Why download server and the convert it to a desktop?
> How do you get a list of packages and meta-packages that you can apt-get?
apt-cache search .
> How do you find out WHAT is in a package. EG I got various lame bits before I
> got the development libraries needed to build mythtv? (rpm -ql)
Assuming the package is already installed:
dpkg -L package
YOu can map a file name to the package it came from using:
dpkg -S /full/path/filename
> How do I find (in rpm speak) whatprovides -lXv ?
There might be a better way, but I use this:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages
Erik
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