Another useful command is apt-file. You can use it to search for a file
and if the file is anywhere in the debian package hierarchy as well as on
your machine you'll get to find out which package has that particular
file.
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Matt Barnes wrote:
Another one that I use to list my installed packages is:
dpkg -l * | grep ii | more
It lists all packages, greps out those marked as ii (installed) on the
system, and pipes it to more (screen full at a time). I usually put this in
a shell-script so it can be run at anytime.
Also, depending on your screen reader, I like to use the -q option with
apt-get. It will cause the progress indicators to be silent and cuts out
quite a bit of the spam.
On Dec 12, 2007 9:25 AM, Aldo <blinuxman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:29:18AM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Try a couple commands like: which apt-cache. If that comes back with a
file name, you can do apt-cache search "search string" and find what
packages might do that. I like apt-cache search "search string" | less
though better. less is a output pager quite useful to have on systems
too.
Maybe a good extra command is apt-cache show appname like in
apt-cache show lynx
With the search param you can't see details, while show shows details,
author, dependences, conflicts, suggested extra packages, and recommended
extras, very useful IMHO.
Aldo.
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