Re: How to find a package of an uninstalled file?
Ali Milis(almilis@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> Hi,
>
> May I know on how to find a package of an uninstalled file?
> For example, I was looking for "ppmtolss16".
> I tried "dpkg --search";
> but it was not there because "syslinux"was not installed.
ppmtolss16 is not a package but is part of syslinux.
If syslinux is installed, ppmtolss16 is also installed as part of it.
dpkg -S ppmtolss16 will show syslinux: /usr/bin/ppmtolss16
only if syslinux is installed.
apt-cache search ppmtolss16 does not bring up any package here even
tho syslinux is installed. This is the command I usually use to find
uninstalled files.
:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)
WT
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