[TriLUG] RH to Debian learning curve?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On 11/1/05, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't found that I've had to interface directly with dpkg very
> much if at all.

There are quite a few things I want to do that I can't do using one
of the higher level programs like apt.  For instance, given any
particular file on the filesystem, how can I tell what package it belongs to?
With rpm I could do "rpm -qf /path/to/file".  To do this on debian
the equivalent command is "dpkg -S /path/to/file".

While good front ends are nice, apt is not equivalent to rpm.
Dpkg is equivalent to rpm and apt is equivalent to urpmi, yum,
or up2date.   Many people don't realize this and therefore
run into trouble.

Cheers,
Tanner
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