It appears to be part of the sphinx database engine package. That was just from googling it. try looking up sphinx search. Sean On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Bryan O'Neal < Bryan.ONeal@theonealandassociates.com> wrote: > apt-file search file.name should tell you the package that owns the > file. Same as rpm -qf /path/to/file on rpm based systems. If you don't > recognize it see what requires that package. If you don't recognize > any of them dry run a removal. > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Joseph Sinclair > wrote: > > It's part of the system packages, and probably used by a few different > things. > > > > I would just leave it. It's generally best not to randomly remove > binaries installed by the package management system. > > > > If you're running mint, you could try "apt-get --dry-run purge > mintsystem", to *test* removing that package, but I would expect that doing > so would cause a ton of other packages to be removed with it. > > > > > > On 06/27/2013 04:49 PM, joe@actionline.com wrote: > >> Thanks all. So I guess no harm if I just delete it? > >> Or is it useful? Or superseded, and if so by what? > >> > >>> It's listed as owned by minsystem and ubuntu-base on the two systems I > >>> tested, but both are a bit older (1 and 2 years respectively) installs. > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >