Re: [gentoo-user] Re: commands to show where a package is installed?

[James Ausmus]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

> Jonathan Callen wrote:
> > Dale wrote:
> > > I would urge you to check into the "q" command and equery.  I !think!
> > > the "q" command is part of portage.  It may be part of gentoolkit tho.
> > > Just the "q" command has more than a dozen different things it does.
> > > equery can do a lot too but some say it has some "accuracy" problems at
> > > times.  It works for my little simple stuff tho.
> >
> > Actually, /usr/bin/q belongs to app-portage/portage-utils, not
> > app-portage/gentoolkit or sys-apps/portage. :)
> >
>
> Thanks.  I wasn't sure which package it belonged to.  I had forgot about
> portage-utils.  Still a good command for someone to look into tho.
>


When you forget which package a command (or any random file) belongs to, a
great way to figure it out would be:

equery belongs $(which q)

;)

-James



>
> Dale
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> :-)  :-)
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