Package name of c++ stl support on Debian ?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:34:06PM -0400, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> 
> >On July 15, 2004 10:31 pm, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> >
> >>Hi, I am new to Debian, and I'd like to know the name of the relevant
> >>package (library and development). The search engine on debian.org was off
> >>...
> >
> >But you still have the search engine on your machine ;-)
> >
> > apt-cache search c++
> >
> >That give a lot, "apt-cache search gcc" gets a little closer to what you 
> >want.
> 
> *quite*. f.ex:
> 
> # apt-cache search g++|grep stl
> castle-combat - game where the player builds one castle and destroys 
> others
> castle-combat-data - data files for castle-combat
> fastlink - [Biology] A faster version of pedigree programs of Linkage
> fastlink-doc - [Biology] Some papers about fastlink
> festlex-cmu - CMU dictionary for Festival
> festlex-poslex - Part of speech lexicons and ngram from English
> gmt-coast-low - Low resolution coastlines for the Generic Mapping Tools
> ht - Viewer/editor/analyser (mostly) for executables
> libstlport4.6 - STLport C++ class library
> libstlport4.6-dev - STLport C++ class library
> op-sh-hostlist - Hostlist tool for Opie
> stl-manual - C++-STL documentation in HTML
> vim-scripts - plugins for vim, adding bells and whistles
> festlex-oald - Festival lexicon from Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary

Perhaps this works better:

apt-cache search g\\+\\+

Since apt-cache takes a regular expression (and the shell needs escapes
too).

The results make a lot more sense that everything which is about what g+
matches.

> But .. I just apt-get install libstlport4.6-dev, libstlport4.6 before and 
> it does not provide stl.h . Yes I ran updatedb. apt-file cannot find any 
> packages that provide stl.h . Who or what provides stl.h ?!
> 
> I found a package list on the web for a rpm of the same kind of package 
> and stl.h was not in it. Huh ? stl.h *must* exist.
> 
> Could someone locate stl.h on their systems and tell what deb it comes 
> from ? If not, is there a shortcut ?

apt-get install apt-file
apt-file update
apt-file search stl.h

Lennart Sorensen
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