Re: Three short apt/dpkg questions
On 6/16/05, Charlie Zender <zender@uci.edu> wrote:
> 1. Which package contains the man-pages for C-library functions like
> sprintf()?
manpages-dev
> 2. Is there a way to ask the system which package owns a specific
> installed file?
$ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/man3/sprintf.3.gz
manpages-dev: /usr/share/man/man3/sprintf.3.gz
> 3. Is there a way to determine the name of the (non-installed) package
> which owns a particular (non-installed) filename? e.g., which package
> will install the file printf.1.gz?
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
Look for "Search the contents of packages".
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