[wplug] 2 questions

harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu
Wed Oct 24 08:53:38 EDT 2001


Sometime in October Reany, Burt assaulted keyboard and produced...

|Interesting corollary to item one;   During the development install, my
|Mandrake distro displayed the name of each software package as it installed
|it, and gave a short description of the function that the package supported.
|I'd love to have the source as a text file, that I could use as a
|cross-reference. My "grep" didn't find it; is there a standard location in
|the RH/Mandrake/Debian world where I might find the source?   I'll spend
|time searching for it this weekend - if you already know, your reply will
|save me a lot of time. Thank you in advance.
|

on rpm based systems like redhat and mandrake
rpm -qai > stuff.txt 


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john
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