aptitude & bash completion

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 12:57 pm, Art Alexion wrote:

> The package in dapper that contains grep-status is grep-dctrl.  Try
> 'apt-cache show grep-dctrl' to see if that is installed.  You may also try
> 'locate grep-status'.

apt-cache show doesn't tell me if it's installed.  It tells me info about the 
installable package, whether it's installed or not.  How about

	dpkg -l|grep grep

instead?

	$dpkg -l|grep grep
	ii  grep                                   2.5.1.ds2-4 GNU grep, egrep and
	ii  grepmap                                1.1.0-1 Parse module map files 

Or I can use slocate too, or look in the various bin directories, etc.  I have 
old configuration files in an old copy of my /etc directory, but nothing 
current.

> I think we have similar ideas.  The odd thing is that if you don't need it,
> I don't know why simply installing it fixed my system.

Black magic voodoo.  It's the Linux way.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre