That's more troublesome. I think one could do it if they had the .deb
archive for every package on their system (not necessarily installed),
by using "dpkg --contents * | grep X" in the directory where the .debs
are. I hope somebody knows of a better way.
In practice, people usually report er
Rather, which package I need to install ... "Oh, I'm missing X - which
package do I need to get?"
Jack
On Mar 11, 2004, at 3:29 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
On Mar 11, 2004, at 5:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I find a package based on its containing a given file?
Thanks,
Jack
If y
On Mar 11, 2004, at 5:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can I find a package based on its containing a given file?
Thanks,
Jack
If you mean which package installed what file on your system, try
dpkg -S "filename"
where filename refers to the file you're looking for.
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 02:23:40 -0800,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How can I find a package based on its containing a given file?
dpkg -S
e.g,,
$ dpkg -s '*/bin/gz*'
gzip: /sw/bin/gzip
gzip: /sw/bin/gzexe
gzip: /sw/bin/gzcat
HTH,
Dan
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How can I find a package based on its containing a given file?
Thanks,
Jack
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