Comments on: Adept, Welcome to Your Installer (3 of ?) http://www.manchicken.com/2007/hacking/adept-welcome-to-your-installer-3-of.html Rantings of a Questionably Sane Chicken Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:31:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: textshell http://www.manchicken.com/2007/hacking/adept-welcome-to-your-installer-3-of.html#comment-68 textshell Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:36:50 +0000 http://blog.notsosoft.net/2007/hacking/adept-welcome-to-your-installer-3-of.html#comment-68 you suggest to use dpkg-query -S /usr/bin/dund but dpkg -S /usr/bin/dund works too. btw, i use commands like dpkg -S $(type -p dpkg-query) often to see from which a program is coming from. other nice things are dpkg -L bluez-utils (shows all files that belong to a packages) and apt-file search xmllint (find packages that contain a file called xmllint, even if it's not currently installed, apt-file needs to be installed and needs an up to date cache: sudo apt-file update) you suggest to use
dpkg-query -S /usr/bin/dund
but
dpkg -S /usr/bin/dund
works too.

btw, i use commands like
dpkg -S $(type -p dpkg-query)
often to see from which a program is coming from.
other nice things are
dpkg -L bluez-utils
(shows all files that belong to a packages)
and
apt-file search xmllint
(find packages that contain a file called xmllint, even if it’s not currently installed, apt-file needs to be installed and needs an up to date cache: sudo apt-file update)

]]> By: manchicken http://www.manchicken.com/2007/hacking/adept-welcome-to-your-installer-3-of.html#comment-26 manchicken Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:37:11 +0000 http://blog.notsosoft.net/2007/hacking/adept-welcome-to-your-installer-3-of.html#comment-26 Ooh, you got me. I shall need to correct my entry. Ooh, you got me. I shall need to correct my entry.

]]> By: Joe Homemaker http://www.manchicken.com/2007/hacking/adept-welcome-to-your-installer-3-of.html#comment-25 Joe Homemaker Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:41:21 +0000 http://blog.notsosoft.net/2007/hacking/adept-welcome-to-your-installer-3-of.html#comment-25 "Now we can use apt-cache to find information about the package. Here’s the command:" Where is the command? “Now we can use apt-cache to find information about the package. Here’s the command:”

Where is the command?

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