which package provides "equery"

[John Dangler]

Vince~
Try it this way...
To locate a package in Ubuntu - for example - ssh-server - at a terminal
command line, type this: sudo aptitude search ssh-server 
( I do think the OP mis-understood, since it appeared he/she was trying
to find equery via aptitude search).
ps - and, yes, equery is part of gentoo

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 04:49 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > If SO, is there equivalent on
> > Ubuntu?  It is used to check whether a package is already installed.
> 
> Stephen, you don't seem to understand what we are telling you, I am afraid we are getting nowhere.
> 
> at first you asked if the package "equery" wasin Ubuntu, we told you how to search the Ubuntu repo, then we have seen that this pacakge is not in the Ubuntu repo because it relates to Gentoo package management, and Ubuntu is not based on Gentoo, but Debian.
> 
> Then you asked for an equivalent in Ubuntu, saying that the package equery in Gentoo was used to display the state of a given package, whether it's installed.
> I have just told you how you can achieve he same in Ubuntu: aptitude show <package name>.
> 
> I don't understand why you don't understand... language barrier ??
> 
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> Vince
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