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Unngenant

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Registered: 2012-05-30

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[SOLVED]Am I crazy or what...

...I can find command nslookup...

I'm used it so many in many distros that I'm shocked that there is no in #! 

marko@crunchbang:~$ nslookup
bash: nslookup: command not found

So my questions are:

1. How can I install it in #!?
2. Which are alternatives?

Last edited by Unngenant (2012-07-24 14:05:46)

pidsley

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Registered: 2012-05-23

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Re: [SOLVED]Am I crazy or what...

sudo apt-get install dnsutils

I found this using "apt-file search" -- if you don't have this yet you should get it:

sudo apt-get install apt-file

then whenever you want to see what package a command or library is in, just use (for example)

apt-file search nslookup

You can also search for packages on packages.debian.org:

http://packages.debian.org/search?searc … e&arch=any

Last edited by pidsley (2012-07-24 14:05:02)

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Unngenant

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Re: [SOLVED]Am I crazy or what...

Thank you pidsley!!!

pidsley

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Re: [SOLVED]Am I crazy or what...

You're welcome. Mark it [solved] if you're happy (edit the tile of your first post).

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skbierm

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Registered: 2012-07-17

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Re: [SOLVED]Am I crazy or what...

There is no need for the package apt-file ... apt comes with it's own command for searching ...

> apt-cache search nslookup
dnsutils - Mit BIND zur Verfügung gestellte Clients
libnet-nslookup-perl - simple DNS lookup module for perl

pidsley

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Re: [SOLVED]Am I crazy or what...

There is no need for the package apt-file ...

In this particular instance, perhaps. But there are times when apt-file can find things apt-cache cannot:

~ $ apt-cache search Xinerama.h
~ $ apt-file search Xinerama.h
fvwm: /usr/share/doc/fvwm/html/commands/Xinerama.html
libghc-x11-dev: /usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib/X11-1.5.0.0/ghc-7.0.4/Graphics/X11/Xinerama.hi
libghc-x11-doc: /usr/share/doc/libghc-x11-doc/html/Graphics-X11-Xinerama.html
libghc-x11-doc: /usr/share/doc/libghc-x11-doc/html/mini_Graphics-X11-Xinerama.html
libghc-x11-doc: /usr/share/doc/libghc-x11-doc/html/src/Graphics-X11-Xinerama.html
libxinerama-dev: /usr/include/X11/extensions/Xinerama.h

And other times where apt-file returns more useful information:

~ $ apt-cache search inxi
inxi - System info script for irc (forked from infobash by locsmith)
~ $ apt-file search inxi
calibre: /usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/store/stores/xinxii_plugin.py
python-spyderlib: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/spyderlib/utils/sphinxify.py
python-spyderlib: /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/spyderlib/utils/sphinxify.py
python-spyderlib: /usr/share/pyshared/spyderlib/utils/sphinxify.py
quassel-data-kde4: /usr/share/kde4/apps/quassel/scripts/inxi

Last edited by pidsley (2012-07-24 16:53:55)

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skbierm

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Re: [SOLVED]Am I crazy or what...

That's correct, pidsley, but for the price of a cache, wasting space ... and time.

> search Xinerama.h
E: The cache is empty. You need to run 'apt-file update' first.

> man apt-file
...
update Resynchronize the package contents from their sources. The lists
              of  the  contents  of  packages are fetched from the location(s)
              specified in /etc/apt/sources.list.  This  command  attempts  to
              fetch  the  Contents-<ARCH>.gz  files  from  remote sources. For
              downloading these uses either the curl or wget commands as spec‐
              ified in apt-file.conf.
...

pidsley

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Re: [SOLVED]Am I crazy or what...

But for the price of a cache, I can find libraries I need when I'm building. Small price to me.

Agree to disagree, OK?

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Awebb

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Re: [SOLVED]Am I crazy or what...

I have to side with pidsley here. On Arch, we also have no file search embedded into the package manager. It is a seperate tool called pkgfile, you can feed it with a file name or a complete file path. Absolutely useful, when there is some broken lib.so.0.foo.bar you need to find, without playing the guessing game with the name. It doesn't search the sources, though.

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johnraff

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Re: [SOLVED]Am I crazy or what...

If you don't want the cache, just search the Debian packages site pidsley linked to.

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