finding package is still an issue

[Michael Chang]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:58 PM, shirish <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Siegfried-Angel
> <siggi.gevatter at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Shirish,
> >
> >  I guess the page you're searching is this one:
> >  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dictd
> >
> >  Note the +source/ in the URL, which you were missing. Also, Launchpad
> >  uses the name of the source packages instead of the binary package's
> >  ones (the source packages are those from which the binary packages
> >  -which are those that you see in Synaptic- are made of).
> >
> >  In a lot of cases both packages have the same name, but if it isn't
> >  like this you can get the name of the source package executing
> >  «apt-cache showsrc BINARY_PACKAGE_NAME | grep Package» in a terminal.
> >
> >  Hope that helps,
> >
> >  --
> >  Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT)
> >  GNU/Linux User #438657. Ubuntu User #11680.
>
> Hi Siegfried,
>  I tried running your command, I get an error message :-
>
>  shirish at Mugglewille:~$ apt-cache showsrc dictd |grep Package
> E: Could not open file
> /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_main_source_Sources
> - open (2 No such file or directory)

You want to update apt's database first:
$ sudo aptitude update;
(OR)
$ sudo apt-get update;

The last line of the output should read:
Reading package lists... Done

Then you want to run the command, typically using the name of the
BINARY package (i.e. the package you install in aptitude). (If you
have the name of the SOURCE package, move to the next step.)

$ apt-cache showsrc dict | grep Package
Package: dictd
Package: dictd

Then file the bug against the source package (in this case "dictd") in Ubuntu.

That said, finding the list amongst all that results (i.e. for the
"linux" package when filing bugs against the hardy development kernel
when the results contain linux-image-* and linux-header-* and
linux-source-* and all sorts of other packages) is annoying from a
usability standpoint... was this what you were talking about, or were
you talking about identifying the correct package in the first place?

Just two cents from another user.

-- 
Michael Chang

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