[mdlug] [WLUG] Ubuntu package question

[John Wiersba]

$ apt-file search libXm.a
lesstif2-dev: /usr/lib/libXm.a
libmotif-dev: /usr/lib/libXm.a





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From: ross smith <rjsm at umich.edu>
To: Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com>
Cc: David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com>; lugwash <linux-users at lugwash.org>; 
mdlug <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Thu, February 24, 2011 8:36:09 PM
Subject: Re: [WLUG] Ubuntu package question

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 20:34, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:06 PM, David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com>
> wrote:
> > G'day,
> >
> > I'm trying to build a program that needs libXm.a but that library
> > isn't on my Ubuntu image. B What package provides it?
> >
> > Is there a search mechanism to answer questions like "what provides
> > libXm.a" ?
> >
>
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=libXm.a&mode=exa
> ctfilename&suite=intrepid&arch=any
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There's also a nice utility exactly for this.

sudo apt-get install apt-file
apt-file update
apt-file search /usr/lib/libzzip.so
libzzip-dev: /usr/lib/libzzip.so

-Ross
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