[Ubuntu] whereis base64

[Augmented]

The base64 command appears to be missing in Ubuntu - it's supposed to now be part of coreutils, so the original author no longer maintains it (http://josefsson.org/base64/), but it doesn't appear to be in the available coreutils package in the official apt repositories.

Is there any reason for this, or is it placed in some oddly named package? I know I can get it by compiling coreutils, but I'd prefer to stick with a binary package through apt if someone here happens to know what that package might be .

 

[M0KUJ1N]

The nearest match I can find is cl-base64 in the Universe repository.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/devel/cl-base64

 

[Augmented]

Thanks for the reply . Looks like that's for Lisp, so not really what I'm after as I could use something like PHP to do the same from the command line.

No big issue, I've just grabbed it out of the latest coreutils download, so that'll work fine until the Ubuntu developers eventually get round to updating coreutils (would have thought it was fairly important!).