Does dpkg or apt (or maybe some other tool) provide a mechanism for determining what package a file or command belongs to for packages that aren't installed?
Let's say I haven't gotten around to installing the package that provides the xargs command (findutils), but I wanted to find out the name of the package ... so that I can apt-get it. dpkg -S does nicely for installed packages, but since it's impossible (at least for me) to know the package names that provide every single command or program in debian, I'm hoping there's a command line way of doing this that's easier than searching through http://packages.debian.org. David Hummel _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
