The number of install CDs [LWN.net]

The number of install CDs

Posted Mar 18, 2005 16:53 UTC (Fri) by scripter (subscriber, #2654)
In reply to: Just installed by b7j0c
Parent article: The Ubuntu 5.04 preview is available

Having to swap CDs is a pain, but I'd much rather do that than download all of the extra packages I typically want. But most of my machines have DVD drives now, so I don't have to swap CDs when I install RedHat/Fedora. I don't think the number of install CDs it the real motivation for most people to switch distributions.

Anyway, I've been trying Ubuntu for about a week now, and like it better than SUSE, but I'm still much more familiar with the RH way of doing things. I've used apt-get for RH for years, so that part of the transition to Ubuntu has been easy.

Is there a guide somewhere that will help me transition my RPM knowledge into debian package management knowledge? For example, how do I do the following things?

rpm -qif /usr/bin/someprogram
rpm -ql somepackage
rpm --verify somepackage
rpm -qa | grep whatever

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The number of install CDs

Posted Mar 20, 2005 18:46 UTC (Sun) by aglet (guest, #1334) [Link]

From memory:

dpkg -S /usr/bin/someprogram # rpm -qif /usr/bin/someprogram
dpkg -L somepackage # rpm -ql somepackage
debsums somepackage # rpm --verify somepackage
dpkg -l '*whatever*' # rpm -qa | grep whatever

The number of install CDs

Posted Mar 21, 2005 17:22 UTC (Mon) by scripter (subscriber, #2654) [Link]

Thanks for the information. It's exactly what I needed.

The number of install CDs

Posted Mar 20, 2005 18:48 UTC (Sun) by aglet (guest, #1334) [Link]

Here's a more useful page than my brief answers (I searched Google for "rpm dpkg rosetta"):

http://xtronics.com/reference/rpm2apt-dpkg.htm