[PLUG] how to find where a lib is

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Bill Barry wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 03:56:48PM -0800, Bruce Kingsland wrote:
> > I decided I wanted to upgrade postgresql, and start coding with it.
[snip]
> > I ran rpm --redhatprovides libssl.so.0.9.6,
> > and was told "no package provides ...".
> > 
> > Now what?
>
> It seems that rpm --redhatprovides  depends critically on
> some provides directives in the spec file and is not always
> very useful. So it does not very often answer the question
> you are asking. In general I would like to know how to
> answer this question also.

I can't resist.

jbrelin at shaft:~$ apt-cache search libssl libcrypto
libssl0.9.6 - SSL shared libraries
jbrelin at shaft:~$

Pretty simple, eh?

Thanks for listening.
J.
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