Which reminds me <pauses to wipe egg off face>
I forgot to use the Fedora equivalent of that. apt tool you just
mentioned...
yum whatprovides tiff2pdf
would have given me...
libtiff-tools-3.9.5-3.fc16.i686 : Command-line utility programs for
manipulating TIFF files
Repo : @updates
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/bin/tiff2pdf
I guess I was so focused on the package and what I assumed was a change,
I didn't think to do a proper search for the command itself.
Oops,
Jim G
On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 07:22 -0400, James wrote:
> 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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> >> > 662-269-2706 662-205-6424
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