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>A.1. Finding Packages/Tools</H1
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>A.1.1. Finding more useful tools</H2
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>If you are looking to find more tools, the <SPAN
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>GNU</SPAN
> project (GNU's Not Unix) maintains a directory, a website listing categorized links to various free-software tools (which they consider useful) called <A
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>Also try sites such as <A
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>Sweet Code</A
> which offer mailing lists of useful tools which they find.</P
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>You may also try looking at the most highly rated, most active or most downloaded programs at <A
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>A.1.2. Finding a particular tool(s)</H2
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>Many of the tools listed in this guide are part of a package of tools, such as <EM
>diffutils </EM
>which contains the various tools used to find differences between files, such as <EM
>diff, sdiff, diff3, cmp</EM
>. Most small tools are bundled together in this fashion. Most major distribution's will offer a search function to help you search the packages by file, you can of course do this via the command-line interface or a GUI.</P
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>If you need to search the distribution's available packages via the command-line, the method will vary depending on the distribution you are using, see the subsections below or consult your distribution's documentation (or of course the internet):</P
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>A.1.2.1. Mandriva (urpm* commands, rpm based)</H3
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>To find where a particular file came from use <EM
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>The results are often overwhelming as this particular command will take a string and list every file of every package in it's database that contains the particular keyword (ie. both uninstalled and installed packages). To refine the results you may want to add a pipe to it and send it through <EM
>grep -w file_name</EM
> (the <EM
>-w</EM
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>A.1.2.2. Red Hat (rpm)</H3
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>To find which package a particular file came from use <EM
>rpm</EM
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>This will find which package the file came from. You need to use <EM
>rpm -qf</EM
> not with a keyword but with the location of the actual file. To find more information on the particular package listed use <EM
>rpm</EM
> with the <EM
>-qi</EM
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>Note that the package name is the name of the package without the <EM
>.arch.rpm </EM
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>A.1.2.3. Debian (deb)</H3
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>To find where a particular file came from use dpkg with the <EM
>-S</EM
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>You may also like to try (if it's installed, it's generally a lot faster than the <EM
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>dlocate -S file_name</PRE
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>For more information on dpkg and dlocate please refer to the relevant manual pages and online sources of information.</P
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>A.1.3. Finding package(s)</H2
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>Packages can be found via the internet utilizing sites such as:</P
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>RPMFind</A
> for <SPAN
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