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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".

-- 
Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
http://mamarsh.blogspot.com



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