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Re: Re (3): HOW2 find an app's 'call-name'?

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On 2012-02-11, no.top.post@gmail.com <no.top.post@gmail.com> wrote:
> Keith Keller wrote:-
>> Is it possible that what you're looking for is not an executable (i.e.,
>> not a program)?  On my Slackware 13.0 system, qt is a directory in 
>> /usr/lib.
>> 
> Yes I gradually got that impression. But I was asking myself "what is this
> BIG thing, and how can I test it?" But it's not about Qt only. It's obvious
> that all apps must be callable, other than by kliking a menu.
>> 
>> IIRC, I see you post on alt.os.linux.slackware.  You can grep through
>> the files in /var/log/packages to find out what package installed a
>> particular file, and what other files (e.g., programs) were installed by
>> the same package.  If you're using another distro, the package manager
>> usually has an option to tell you what package installed a particular
>> file.
>> -- 
> Ok, that would be an elaborate way of of finding out why/what all
> the <qt> files are for. But imagine 'you met some one on the bus, who
> said "if you've got the full XYZ installation, you should try app: dog."
> But when you get to your machine you can't find how to execute dog!
>
> Now I'm satisfied that there are no simple solutions to this.
> The debian commitee will fix it?
>
> Thanks,
>
>== Chris Glur.
>

I wrote those sentences, not Keith.

I wonder how come nobody else seems to have run into this problem.  I
don't mean the attribution of quotes.
-- 
                                 Chick Tower

For e-mail:  colm DOT sent DOT towerboy AT xoxy DOT net

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HOW2 find an app's 'call-name'? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-02-06 08:21 +0000
  Re: HOW2 find an app's 'call-name'? Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2012-02-06 12:47 +0000
    Re (2): HOW2 find an app's 'call-name'? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-02-09 06:23 +0000
      Re: Re (2): HOW2 find an app's 'call-name'? Loki Harfagr <l0k1@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID> - 2012-02-09 08:45 +0000
        Re (3): HOW2 find an app's 'call-name'? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-02-11 15:53 +0000
          Re: Re (3): HOW2 find an app's 'call-name'? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-02-11 11:40 -0500
          Re: Re (3): HOW2 find an app's 'call-name'? Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2012-02-13 02:06 +0100
      Re: Re (2): HOW2 find an app's 'call-name'? Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2012-02-09 21:07 +0200
        Re: Re (2): HOW2 find an app's 'call-name'? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2012-02-09 11:48 -0800
  Re: HOW2 find an app's 'call-name'? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2012-02-06 14:00 +0000
  Re: HOW2 find an app's 'call-name'? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-02-06 15:38 +0000
  Re: HOW2 find an app's 'call-name'? Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2012-02-10 20:36 +0100

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