packages and commands..help needed

Hi,

How do I know the package which is required to be installed to run a
specific command?
For example, the command ifconfig etc...

Can I find any documentation listing commands under packages?

Thanks..

On 19 Apr 2006 14:26:01 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

Please read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

With 300+ distribution of linux we have to give general answers to
general questions with no information.

> Can I find any documentation listing commands under packages?


You use your distributions package manager commands.
The things which comes to mind.

man (your package manager program name here)

man -k package
apropos package

locate (your package manager program name here)
anything returned with /doc is a good canidate for cut/paste into your browser.

for extra points
man man
man apropos
man locate

Thank you very much for the reply and sorry as the question was a
general question. But I am very new to Linux...

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> Thank you very much for the reply and sorry as the question was a
> general question.

We all start learning somewhere, no need to be sorry.

> But I am very new to Linux...

We can tell from the questions. If you were to read
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
for this reply, you could have replied with something like

Sorry, running Mandriva Linux 2006.0 or fc5, or ubuntu 5.10 or,,,,

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