Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc
From: Chris Niekel (chris_at_niekel.net)
Date: 09/30/03
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:59:14 +0200 To: Debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 12:29:32PM -0400, Angus D Madden wrote:
> > rpm -q --whatprovides xxxx = tell me what package provided program
>
> If the package is not installed, you can grab the Contents-$arch.gz file
> from one of the debian servers and use zgrep to see what package owns
> what file.
I once grabbed a function from somewhere:
packageof() {
[ $# = 1 ] && w3m -dump "http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?>
}
This allows you to do "packageof hello".
Highly recommended if the program isn't installed yet.
Greetings,
Chris Niekel
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