Re: searching for what package includes a given file
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Benjamin Rutt wrote:
> I just successfully used "Search the contents of packages" from
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages to determine what package in
> "stable" provides GL/glx.h.
>
> Is there a way to do that search via command-line tools without
> resorting to the web page? I know that dpkg -S <expression> will do
> that for packages already installed on your system, but doesn't help
> for those that are not.
>
use apt-file
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