[Gambas-user] I got it!

Peter Lang massenpost at ...1093...
Sun Aug 28 17:04:53 CEST 2005


On Sunday 28 August 2005 14:53, Alberto Torres wrote:
> 2005/8/28, Peter Lang <massenpost at ...1093...>:
> > On Saturday 27 August 2005 19:15, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Mmf. I didn't find a way to find a package from a file included in
> > > it... Very useful anyway!
> >
> > dpkg -s <filename>
> >
> > will find even parts of a filename
> >
> > Peter
>
> but only for installed packages, I think, and it's upcase -S as far as
> I recall (I'm not in my computer now and this is SuSe). For file
> searches (and some more apt tricks) I use wajig.
>

Ok, you'r right, dpkg -S filename

is only for installed packages,
dpkg -s pkgname
shows the status of a package

Peter

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