From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-06-08T04:12:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Desktop multi-plataform ruby app

On Saturday 07 June 2008 12:44:46 Hassan Schroeder wrote:

> :preface => I hate *nix package managers :-)

The main reason I still use *nix is because of package managers.

> I think you'd be better off downloading a JDK from Sun and installing
> it the normal way, so you /know/ where it's located.

Huh?

$ which java
/usr/bin/java
$ dpkg -L sun-java6-jdk
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/sun-java6-jdk
/usr/share/doc/sun-java6-jdk/README.html
/usr/share/doc/sun-java6-jdk/README.alternatives
/usr/share/doc/sun-java6-jdk/copyright
/usr/share/doc/sun-java6-jdk/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/applications
/usr/share/applications/sun-java6-jconsole.desktop
(LONG output snipped -- run it yourself)

Maybe it could be easier, but I can, in fact, get a list of every single file 
a package has installed -- or every single file it will installed, before I 
do. Usually I use packages.ubuntu.com, but that seems to be down right now...