XMPP is actually super easy to setup with Prosody. Highly recommend giving it a try. The hardest part is getting all the SRV records right in your DNS.

It’s particularly awesome if you set it up to use the same user and domain as your email(s), and then your email and XMPP IDs are the same!

I’ve had torrents take years.

and install paths

And also configs files do in fact get installed by packages. Not all of them, but some do.

Whether or not they are guaranteed to be there is irrelevantly pedantic.

So what exactly are you adding to the conversation here?

This wall of text does sound like it came straight from an LLM. Give me a receipt for turd muffins.

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.

No it does exactly that. The issue is that the config you are looking at was not created by a package.

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.

dpkg -L PACKAGE_NAME does what you want. In my initial reply I mentioned that dpkg -S is the inverse.

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.

dpkg -S requires a full path like the example I gave. dpkg -L samba should work fine. What is the error you got?

dpkg -L package-name

Or the inverse

dpkg -S /usr/bin/somefile

For apt based distros, obviously.