On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 11:13 -0600, Jeremy wrote:
> How can I find all the files which are not in packages in ubuntu?

Here's an idea:

  find / > /tmp/allfiles.txt
  for i in `cat /tmp/allfiles.txt`
  do
    if ! dpkg --search $i
    then echo $i > /tmp/unknown.txt
    fi
  done

You might want "-type f" in that find command.

-- 
Adam Monsen
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