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Re: utilities

From	Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: utilities
Date	2018-09-25 13:00 +0200
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On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 06:28:46 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:08:54PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > mick crane wrote:
> > > have a look in /usr/bin  ?
> > 
> > Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin :
> >   https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard
> > 
> > /bin is specified to hold "essential" programs.
> > /sbin is its add-on for system administrators.
> > /usr/bin + /usr/sbin together hold nearly 4000 files on my system.
> > 
> > 
> > Thakur Mahashaya wrote:
> > > no trick to be honest
> > 
> > But are you aware that "standard utility" can be the start of a nice
> > dispute among the regulars of a computer users' mailing list ?
> > (Let's see what happens. No real persons or animals will be hurt.)
> 
> $ aptitude search '?priority(required)'
> 
> will get you a list of the packages installed that absolutely
> have to be installed.

A nice use of aptitude. Note that it now "Priority: optional", so it
would not be provided by the installer.

-- 
Brian.

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Re: utilities "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-25 12:10 +0200
  Re: utilities Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-25 12:20 +0200
    Re: utilities "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-25 13:30 +0200
      Re: utilities Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2018-09-25 15:40 +0200
        Re: utilities "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-25 15:50 +0200
      Re: utilities Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-25 16:10 +0200
        Re: utilities "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-25 17:20 +0200
        Re: utilities Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2018-09-25 18:20 +0200
    Re: utilities Jack Dangler <tdldev@gmail.com> - 2018-09-25 14:40 +0200
  Re: utilities Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-09-25 12:40 +0200
    Re: utilities Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-25 13:00 +0200
    Re: utilities Jack Dangler <tdldev@gmail.com> - 2018-09-25 14:40 +0200
    Re: utilities Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-09-25 14:40 +0200

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