kcalc dependencies

Ray Parrish crp at cmc.net
Sat Mar 21 15:58:57 UTC 2009


Derek Broughton wrote:
> Ray Parrish wrote:
>   
>> There may also be one or two packages found at /opt, /etc/opt, 
>> and/or /usr/share/applications/ as well. On my system, there is the real
>> [real player] package at /opt/, nothing at /etc/opt/, and kde,
>> screensavers, and kde4 at /usr/share/applications/ with everything else
>> showing in /usr/share/.
>>     
>
> If your software is properly behaved, the only place you should find
> anything that was not installed from packages is in either /opt
> or /usr/local.  Definitely _not_ in /etc/opt.
>   
Oh well, just passing on what I read in the Rutebook. I was under the 
impression that it was an authoritative source since it's included in 
the Ubuntu docs installation.

By the way, that "ugly method" took me most of a day to figure out the 
syntax for, and it works great if you just want to know what dates your 
packages were installed on.

Later, Ray Parrish

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