From: Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 10:01:06 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: be amenable to systems without aptitude
X-Git-Url: https://iankelling.org/git/?p=distro-functions;a=commitdiff_plain;h=29a9cf3a392bc7229a332c136b9ea7d4b70b53f2

be amenable to systems without aptitude
---

diff --git a/src/package-manager-abstractions b/src/package-manager-abstractions
index 20dbc05..6936c92 100644
--- a/src/package-manager-abstractions
+++ b/src/package-manager-abstractions
@@ -105,7 +105,11 @@ EOF
     }
     # package info
     pl() {
-        aptitude show "$@"
+        if type -p aptitude &>/dev/null; then
+            aptitude show "$@"
+        else
+            apt-cache show "$@"
+        fi
     }
     pfile() {
         local file=$1
@@ -115,8 +119,8 @@ EOF
         # package name. So, commenting this, waiting to find
         # a config file only tracked by ucfq to see if it gives the
         # package name and if I can identify this kind of file.
-#        if [[ $file == /* ]] && ! ucfq -w $file | grep ::: &>/dev/null; then
-#            ucfq $file
+        # if [[ $file == /* ]] && ! ucfq -w $file | grep ::: &>/dev/null; then
+        #    ucfq $file
 
         if [[ $file == */* ]]; then
             apt-file find -x "$file"\$