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User:PeterChubb

2006-07-20T04:46:28Z

PeterChubb:

See my home Wiki page at http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/IA64wiki/PeterChubb

Whatpackage

2006-07-20T04:45:44Z

PeterChubb:

To find what package a file belongs to I created the following script.
*There may be a quicker way to do this, please feel free to inform if you find it.
**There is: either use
dpkg -S filename
or if you have it installed,
dlocate filename
**-- [[User:PeterChubb|PeterChubb]]

Ensure you are root, and run the following commands

cat > /usr/bin/whichpkg << EOF
#!/bin/bash
echo checking for $1

for package in `dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'`
{
for file in `dpkg --listfiles $package 2> /dev/null`
{
if echo $file | grep $1
then
echo The file is from $package
fi
}
}
EOF
chmod 755 /usr/bin/whichpkg

Now that the script is in place, to find the file simply use the command

whichpkg ''filename''

For example, to find out whatpackage /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig comes from you tupe
whichpkg knoppix-autoconfig

This takes some time as it searches everypackage for the result.
Hope this helps.

[[User:SNIa|SNIa]] 03:34, 8 Jul 2006 (GMT)

Whatpackage

2006-07-20T04:43:03Z

PeterChubb:

To find what package a file belongs to I created the following script.
*There may be a quicker way to do this, please feel free to inform if you find it.
**There is: either use
dpkg -S filename
or if you have it installed,
dlocate filename
[[User:PeterChubb|PeterChubb]]

Ensure you are root, and run the following commands

cat > /usr/bin/whichpkg << EOF
#!/bin/bash
echo checking for $1

for package in `dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'`
{
for file in `dpkg --listfiles $package 2> /dev/null`
{
if echo $file | grep $1
then
echo The file is from $package
fi
}
}
EOF
chmod 755 /usr/bin/whichpkg

Now that the script is in place, to find the file simply use the command

whichpkg ''filename''

For example, to find out whatpackage /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig comes from you tupe
whichpkg knoppix-autoconfig

This takes some time as it searches everypackage for the result.
Hope this helps.

[[User:SNIa|SNIa]] 03:34, 8 Jul 2006 (GMT)