which package provides "equery"

Stephen Liu satimis at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 9 14:25:42 UTC 2006


Hi Peter,

Tks for your advice.

> There are several ways to check whether a package is installed. For
> example
> 
> dpkg -l <packagename> ( if it is installed the line will start with
> ii  )
> 
> apt-cache policy <packagename>  ( which also tells you which
> repository it
> comes from, and what the "candidate" for update or installation is)
> For
> instance:
> 
> apt-cache policy nautilus
> nautilus:
>   Installed: 2.14.3-0ubuntu1
>   Candidate: 2.14.3-0ubuntu1
>   Version table:
>  *** 2.14.3-0ubuntu1 0
>         500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      2.14.1-0ubuntu9 0
>         500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
> 
> 
> apt-cache show <packagename> gives you information about the package
> itself
> 
> I would suggest installing the apt-howto package for your language of
> choice ( see  apt-cache search apt-howto  )
> 
> You can then type  "apt-howto" in a terminal and it should open in
> your
> browser, where you can bookmark it for off line reference.
> Alternatively,
> you can view the same howto at
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/

Noted with tks.


> As far as "equery" is concerned - I don't think it exists in
> Debian/Ubuntu :-) I have the "apt-file" utility installed here, and
> "apt-file search equery " doesn't show it anywhere as a separate file
> or
> command. 
> 
> "xfe - lightweight file manager for X11"  package, (which you already
> tried)  :) I think you'll find the "equery" in that package is
> irrelevant:
> the command is
> 
> xfe: usr/bin/xfilequery
> 
> but I have no idea what that does :-) I think apt-cache search and
> apt-file search just picked up the "equery" string within that
> command.

I have xfe installed.  "equery" is not the command which I was
searching for.  Therefore I removed xfe afterwards.

B.R.
Stephen




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