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Re: [SLE] How to find the name of programs in SuSE 7.2?
- From: Leah Cunningham <leah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 22:09:17 -0700
- Message-id: <20010703220917.A70151@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Eddie Howson (eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) [010702 00:14]:
> One of the most frustrating things that I have found with 7.2, is that the
> description or details of a package no longers lists the name of files it
> contains. Over the weekend, I installed the fpk package (pascal compiler).
> It unpacks its files in a directory called fpc and the compiler is ppc386.
> It took me ages to find this out (actually by using an earlier distribution
> CD). Perhaps someone can enlighten me as to an alternative (easier) method.
> Don't get me wrong. I love SuSE 7.2 and was boasting about it to a friend
> who has had continuous problems with several of his systems running MS stuff.
> However, I would really appreciate some guidance here because it can get
> frustrating at times?
rpm -qif <packagename>
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I can't believe it's not UNIX!!!
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Leah Cunningham | (heinous)@openprojects #suse
www.heinous.org | Linux geek, et al.
> One of the most frustrating things that I have found with 7.2, is that the
> description or details of a package no longers lists the name of files it
> contains. Over the weekend, I installed the fpk package (pascal compiler).
> It unpacks its files in a directory called fpc and the compiler is ppc386.
> It took me ages to find this out (actually by using an earlier distribution
> CD). Perhaps someone can enlighten me as to an alternative (easier) method.
> Don't get me wrong. I love SuSE 7.2 and was boasting about it to a friend
> who has had continuous problems with several of his systems running MS stuff.
> However, I would really appreciate some guidance here because it can get
> frustrating at times?
rpm -qif <packagename>
--
I can't believe it's not UNIX!!!
------------------------------------------------------------
Leah Cunningham | (heinous)@openprojects #suse
www.heinous.org | Linux geek, et al.
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