Anyone good with dpkg/apt

[Paul Lussier]

"Michael ODonnell" <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> writes:

> man dpkg-deb
>
> You might want to use it thus:
>
>    dpkg-deb --contents youPackageFile.deb

This assumes you have the .deb to operate on.  Assuming it's an
installed package, and the .deb has long since been deleted, try:

  dpkg -L package

Assuming you want to get back your long-lost .deb, try:

  dpkg-repack packagename

if ((!installed $package) && (! -f $package.deb) && (! $willing_to_fetch)) {

 system("apt-file list packagename");

}

HTH.
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Seeya,
Paul
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