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  • Unfortunately I have also found it to be a huge impediment to making friends with other millennials who aren’t techie. I sort of left a crowd that was always on xmpp and signal and found myself rather ostracized. Things are changing slowly and most of them are now on Signal and with the usernames it’s easier to exchange contact without relying on phone numbers that feel like a bigger commitment. But unfortunately passed explaining why you won’t support Meta, and why alternatives like Signal are good there isn’t much to do.









  • Re read their original.messsage. they specifically asked for, and I quote, “install paths”. You’re going to have to work on reading comprehension before accusing people of being LLMs.

    Meanwhile, every single time they replied they used the command wrong… Provided the wrong value for the arguments. Despite the original instructions. Yeah, it didn’t work for them. That’s a skills issue.



  • Like I said, it obviously can only track files installed by the package, if the conf was generated by the executable after, or if you created it, the package system cannot know about it.

    Also, you’re still using -S wrong. It takes a file path as argument, not a package name. And does the opposite of -L by showing you which installed package, if any, owns an existing file.



  • You’re confusing the command again

     -L, --listfiles package-name...
                   List files installed to your system from package-name.
     -S, --search filename-search-pattern...
                   Search for a filename from installed packages.
    

    dpkg -S /my/file/path

    Finds which, installed, package installed the file.

    dpkg -L samba | grep .conf

    Greps through the list of files installed by a given package.

    If the file you want isn’t in there then it wasn’t installed by the package itself (could be created on the fly by the binary for example), in which case obviously the package system can’t track it.