Beginners • Re: OS documentation for omitted Linux commands?

You can install the package apt-file to search for packages by filename.

Note that apt file:

1. downloads huge index files;
2. can produce thousands of lines of not very useful output;
3. may provide several alternatives without hinting which is more useful;
4. is also slow.

For example, to search for the package that contains the "cal" command:The new user might assume that "9base" is a reasonable option (hey, it has "base" in it, so it must be fundamental, right?) but it turns out with further searching:So that's not the one you'd want (unless you were really into the Plan 9 OS).

OP: I don't think your questions are answerable. A missing command for you is a command I may never use (like ftp). You probably don't care about some commands we'll never see (like autotrace, a bitmap tracer that lost its Debian maintainer and thus its status). It's almost impossible to say what a "complete" system contains.

Statistics: Posted by scruss — Thu Aug 15, 2024 7:31 pm

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