Today we are very happy to feature a huge interview with most of the developer team of Arch Linux, including its founder, Judd Vinet. If you are curious about this young and promising Linux distribution, dig in for more!
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there is ldd to check binaries --- very easy to use:
<tt>ldd /usr/bin/gimp</tt>
and to find out, what package owns a file this binary depends on you ask pacman:
<tt>[damir@Asteraceae ~]$ pacman -Qo /lib/tls/libc.so.6<br/>
/lib/tls/libc.so.6 is owned by glibc 2.3.4-2 </tt>
... and namcap to check packages on dependencies --- also very easy to use against PKGBUILD's or pkg.tar.gz"
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"> >$ readelf -d /usr/bin/gimp | grep '(NEEDED)' | cut -d[ -f2 | cut -d] -f1
there is ldd to check binaries --- very easy to use:
<tt>ldd /usr/bin/gimp</tt>
and to find out, what package owns a file this binary depends on you ask pacman:
<tt>[damir@Asteraceae ~]$ pacman -Qo /lib/tls/libc.so.6<br/>
/lib/tls/libc.so.6 is owned by glibc 2.3.4-2 </tt>
... and namcap to check packages on dependencies --- also very easy to use against PKGBUILD's or pkg.tar.gz"
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# apt-get install gimp
voilá!