<quote who="Rick Welykochy"> > Which raises another question. I am often working with a really barebones > debian network install for starters and then add just the packages I need. > > Sometimes a few simple commands are missing, and it takes quite a while to > figure out in which package the command resides. > > How does one in general locate a specific executable or module amongst the > debian packages?
fisty (Ubuntu 7.04) has a cute little feature called command-not-found (that is the package name, too): $ sl The program 'sl' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install sl Make sure you have the 'universe' component enabled bash: sl: command not found (I would not actually recommend installing sl though. It's fucking annoying, as per design.) - Jeff -- GNOME.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://live.gnome.org/Melbourne2008 "The most beautiful things about the world are deer and bunnies. Even in a carnivorous way I like them, they are my favourite meats. When I see them together I feel that is a safe place." - Vincent Gallo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
