Re: finding package is still an issue

[shirish <shirishag75@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Siegfried-Angel
<siggi.gevatter@xxxxxxxxx> 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@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)

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          Shirish Agarwal
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