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Re: rpm -qa vs apt/dselect/etc



On 03-09-30 12:29 -0400, Angus D Madden wrote:
> shorton, Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:23:14AM -0500: 
> > rpm -q --whatprovides xxxx = tell me what package provided program
> > xxxxx
> 
> If the package is installed:
> 
> dpkg -S 
> 
> If the package is not installed, you can grab the Contents-$arch.gz file
> from one of the debian servers and use zgrep to see what package owns
> what file.
> 

`apt-file search nameoffile` will do this for you. package apt-file. 





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