Error in wiki page DebuggingProgramCrash?

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Thu Mar 29 23:19:12 UTC 2007


On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 07:11:23PM +0200, Christoffer Sørensen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed the following on the wiki page
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash
> 
> "Install the needed .debs (they will be in the current working
> directory if the build succeeded):
> 
> sudo debi <package>*.changes"
> 
> shouldn't that be
> 
> "sudo dpkg -i <package>*.deb"
> 
> Sorry if I am posting to the wrong list.

The debi command is more correct.  Consider what would happen if there were
other .deb files in that directory which were not part of the build, and
also that a source package "foo" might produce a binary package like
"libfoo" which wouldn't match "<package>*".

-- 
 - mdz




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