Re: how to find a package that provides ____._____

[Graham Williams <Graham.Williams@cmis.csiro.au>]

    > I need libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6 to run Wordperfect.... how do
    > I find out which .deb package provides these?

If you want to find where some file lives then you can ask at
http://packages.debian.org/.

You probably want to apt-get install xlibs.

I have a script that searches from the command line:

  $ wajig whichpkg libXt.so.6
  usr/X11R6/lib/debug/libXt.so.6			    devel/xlibs-dbg
  usr/X11R6/lib/debug/libXt.so.6.0			    devel/xlibs-dbg
  usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6				    libs/xlibs
  usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0				    libs/xlibs
  usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6			    oldlibs/xlib6
  usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6.0			    oldlibs/xlib6
  $

Underneath this simply queries the web server:

 $ wget http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl\?word=libXt.so.6\&case=insensitive\&version=unstable\&arch=i386\&directories=yes

Regards,
Graham