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
> <plug-discussion@stcaz.net> 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 Or superseded, and if so by what?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.
> >>
> >>
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