Re: [Pan-users] Click on URL in a post??

[Duncan]

On Mon 16 Dec 2002 14:04, Eric Ortega posted as excerpted below:
> As opposed to going through packaging, you can try 'ldd /bin/vim-minimal'
> to see the dependencies.  This, in an empirical sense, will probably be
> more "valid" than whatever the package maintainer said, AFAIK.

I was just WISHING for such an animal...  I think I'd seen it mentioned 
elsewhere, but had forgotten about it.  Thanks.

(Sizes, I presume that's what they are, left off.)
$ ldd /bin/vi
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5
        libgpm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2
        libperl.so => 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
        libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1
        libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1
        libpython2.2.so.0.0 => /usr/lib/libpython2.2.so.0.0
        libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6
        libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2

To bad it doesn't list the actual executable as well, especially when it's a 
symlink you pointed to.  ls -l excerpts:
/bin/vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi*
/etc/alternatives/vi /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/vim-enhanced*

$ ldd /bin/vim-minimal
        libtermcap.so.2 => /lib/libtermcap.so.2
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2
        libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2

That's quite a bit lower in dependencies, and isn't a symlink.  Note that the 
package description I quoted earlier was wrong, as you mentioned, because it 
said it was installed into /bin/vi, when it is actually installed into 
/bin/vim-minimal.

Something to write Mdk about, I guess...

-- 
Duncan
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