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From: lanjelot <lanjelot@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to discover what is the package of a given file?
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:07:51
Message-Id: ei6250$f6r$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to discover what is the package of a given file? by kashani
1 i'm amazed by how reactive you people were, eix -S was actually what i
2 was looking for for so long.
3
4 thx heaps!
5
6 kashani wrote:
7 > lanjelot wrote:
8 >> but what if <package> isn't merged yet ?
9 >>
10 >> expl:
11 >> how do i find out what package i need to emerge so i can use nslookup.
12 >>
13 >> it's something i've been wondering for a while and i just thought it
14 >> could fit in this thread even though the poster got the answer to his
15 >> question.
16 >>
17 >> thanks all
18 >
19 > It's not easy under any system. My favorite was trying to figure out how
20 > to get uuencode stuff under Redhat. It's the sharutils package in case
21 > you were wondering.
22 >
23 > Google and the Gentoo forums are your friends when trying to find what
24 > installs what though most of it fairly straightforward. Gentoo does have
25 > some unique issues because the Gentoo "system" is fairly stripped down
26 > so things like dig, telnet, or ftp are missing until you add them.
27 > That's much of the appeal to many people.
28 >
29 > emerge bind-tools to get nslookup, dig, host, etc.
30 >
31 > kashani
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