Actually need to clarify, this searches for the specified file in packages,
thus this the Debian equivalent to the e-file example.
On May 22, 2012 7:12 AM, "James" <marblemunkey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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