[aklug] Re: More on tiff2pdf and other command line tools

Just to complete the Hat Trick, you do this in Debian (or other apt based
distros) with:
   apt-file search tiff2pdf
- James Gibson
On May 22, 2012 1:18 AM, "Jim Gribbin" <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:

> I do like Gentoo, it has probably been my favorite distro. It was just to
> time consuming at the time I was using it because I could not use Linux as
> my daily driver. Trying to update Gentoo once a week with the slower
> network access I had available at the time just took too long.
> For checking to see if I have a particular package installed in Fedora, I
> usually execute "rpm -qa | grep [package name]".
>
> Without the grep part, rpm lists all packages in the install database.
>
> "Yum info [package name]" will also give me the information, but this only
> searches the exact package name unless the operator suspects there is a
> variant of the name and thinks to add an asterix to the package name. Yum
> has the added advantage in that it will tell if the requested package is
> available in any of the repositories that are set up. Or the update, as the
> case may be.
>
> My difficulty is that I thought I had the needed package as I had forgotten
> about libtiff-tools and was only checking for libtiff, so this didn't help
> in this instance. I did use the tools.
>
> Jim G
> On May 21, 2012 8:19 PM, "Bruce Hill" <bruce@happypenguincomputers.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 07:28:16PM -0800, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> > > What I suspectmight be happening here is that I, as well as R Dennison
> > and
> > > others, are so used to things like tff2pd being avaible by default, we
> > > forget those are really "optional" tools and are being intalled as
> > > "standard" options.
> > > But as the Linux (insert your favorite here) Desktop has matured, we
> use
> > > the command line less and less.
> > >
> > > Now because we use them less, the developers are starting to leave some
> > of
> > > them out of the standard install. We don't use it for a while, don't
> miss
> > > it for a while, then forget where it came from.
> > >
> > > At least, thats MY story and I'm sticking to it!!
> > >
> > > Jim G
> >
> > Gentoo has some really impressive tools. One of them is pfl, a searchable
> > online file/package database for Gentoo. It uses e-file to find what
> these
> > commands get installed by:
> >
> > $ e-file tiff2pdf
> > would tell you it's in media-libs/tiff in Gentoo.
> >
> > I'm sure some of those distros you guys use have similar tools.
> >
> > Peace,
> > Bruce
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Received on Tue May 22 03:13:01 2012