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Nicholas Kuechler

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Debian & Ubuntu Equivalents of ‘yum whatprovides’

Debian & Ubuntu Equivalents of ‘yum whatprovides’

Introduction

For Debian and Ubuntu users there are three easy ways to find what package a file on your system is from. Those Red Hat, Fedora, or CentOS over to a Debian or Ubuntu system may have become used to using ‘yum whatprovides’. There is no whatprovides equivalent in aptitude or apt-get. But there are three easy to use debian/ubuntu alternatives to ‘yum whatprovides’: the Ubuntu packages search web site, the apt-file package, and the ‘dpkg -S’ command.

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Creative Blogging: Photo Storytelling from Amateur Gourmet

Creative Blogging: Photo Storytelling from Amateur Gourmet

Great Creative Blogging Idea

I came across this brilliant blog post while reading Guy Kawasaki’s blog. The article is storytelling in photo form. Amateur Gourmet takes pictures and adds captions. The result is a story look like a comic book. It’s very interesting idea and I hope to see more of it on other blogs in the future.

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