perfsonar development work

[Szymon Trocha <>]

Hi,

While installing sshtelnet mp I noticed in par 9.2.2 that WebAdminGuide 
tells the user to check dependencies via apt-cache search. I'm not sure 
it makes sense as AFAIK it doesn't say about *installed* applications 
but about *available* for installation! (note the world "cache")

It also doesn't make sense as e.g. your example of apt-cche search exist 
gives at least at my server a long list of useless information:

root@loco4:/var/lib/tomcat5.5/logs#
 apt-cache search exist
adduser - Add and remove users and groups
libarchive-zip-perl - Module for manipulation of ZIP archives
libparted1.7-1 - The GNU Parted disk partitioning shared library
parted - The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program
amarok - versatile and easy to use audio player for KDE
cli-common - common files between all CLI (.NET) packages
[...]
libavformat-dev - development files for libavformat
libavformat0d - ffmpeg file format library
pcregrep - grep utility that uses perl 5 compatible regexes.
xemacs21 - highly customizable text editor
tomcat5.5-exist - tomcat exist perfSONAR edition
root@loco4:/var/lib/tomcat5.5/logs#

In order to search for *installed* packaged one has to use dpkg -l

Regards,
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Szymon Trocha

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