thanks! ------------------ Marvin Blackburn Systems Administrator Glen Raven "He's no failure. He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Michael Thompson > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 10:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] resolving a dependency > > > IIRC, if you use yum: > > yum provides <file_name> > > should return a list of packages that contain <file_name>. > > If anyone knows the equivalent in apt, I'd love to hear about it! > > :) > > --mike > > On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 09:54, Jon Carnes wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 08:09, Marvin Blackburn wrote: > > > I keep running into this issue. > > > > > > I try to load a package, say packageX. When I try to > install, it says that > > > i need fileY to resolve > > > some dependency. How can I find the package that might > contain that fileY, > > > so I can install packageX. > > > > > > If a previous version of the file is on the system, you > can often see what > > > package it was associated with. > > > But if the file is not there, what do you do. > > > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > > This is why folks use tools like Up2date or Apt or Yum. > They have lists > > of files/dependencies and will automatically apply them for you. > > > > If you are using rpm's you can use rpmfind.net to find a > package that > > contains a specific file. > > > > Good Luck - Jon Carnes > -- > Michael Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
