[Gllug] oops (any way to download just the file list for a Debian package)

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 06:46:11AM -0800, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> I stupidly deleted the dpkg file list archive. Does
> anyone know if it's possible to get the file list for
> a Debian package without downloading the entire thing?

If it's installed, try 'dpkg -L packagename'.

If it's a Debian package, you can get the list of files, .dsc, source
or just about anything else from (for example) here:

http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/bash

Rich.

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