locate file in package?

Rob Blomquist rob.blomquist at verizon.net
Thu Aug 17 03:27:47 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 16 August 2006 11:11, D. R. Evans wrote:
> I didn't receive any useful responses to the e-mail below, which I first
> sent a few days ago (although thank you Roshan for trying).
>
> I am still stuck on this. It's the first thing I've hit in Kubuntu that
> hasn't been obvious :-( Can anyone help?

One thing I always try is to query the file name and Debian using Google. This 
often gives hits that contain the package name. Then I use that with apt-get 
install. Be careful, as package names are different under Debian than 
Mandrake.

Rob

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Mountlake Terrace, WA




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