Re: CUPS+PDF Letterhead?

CBFalconer wrote:
John-Paul Stewart wrote:
They, and several other useful utilities, should be in the "psutils"
package. (At least that's where they came from on my Debian system.)

Thanks - found 'em all. Is there an index to package contents?

I'm not aware of any "index" per se. I use 'apt-cache search <keyword>' to search for packages by keyword, and 'apt-file search <filename>' to figure out which (not-yet-installed) package contains a certain file if I know the filename. (After the necessary 'apt-get update' and 'apt-file update' operations, of course.)

There might be GUI front-ends to all of this. I've never bothered to look for them.

You might try asking that question on a Debian or Ubuntu forum or mailing list. I've been using Debian for ~7 years, and am consistently amazed by how little I still know about its CLI-based package management utilities---they are very extensive. The above commands have always been sufficient for me, though..
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