On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 07:29:27PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > 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? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] auto-apt search xargs > usr/bin/xargs base/findutils
Thanks (to Ken as well). But try: $ auto-apt search gqview ... and look at the mess you get. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-cache search xargs > findutils - utilities for finding files--find, xargs, and locate This seems to be incomplete since it relies on the file or command name being in the package descriptions in /var/lib/apt/lists. Try: $ apt-cache search updatedb (updatedb is also in the findutils package) "apt-file search" seems the most promising for this purpose (and wouldn't you know I had apt-file installed already ;-). David Hummel _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
