On Sun 16 Nov 03, 7:12 PM, David Hummel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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
sure, try this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] auto-apt search xargs usr/bin/xargs base/findutils or this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-cache search xargs findutils - utilities for finding files--find, xargs, and locate pete -- GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
