On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:22 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote:
> how can I tell which package installs a given file ?
> something like:
>
> # find-package-from-file /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
> libxml2
As always there are multiple to do this :)
* dpkg -S /path/to/file
* apt-file search /path/to/file
* dlocate -S /path/to/file
I prefer to use either apt-file or dlocate. The former comes in quite handy as
it also works for packages that are not installed and it supports regular
expressions. If you are looking for an executable, but don't know the full
path you can search for:
$ apt-file search -x "bin/foo$"
which will find all files named "foo" that are in a bin/ directory somewhere.
In particular this will not match "bin/foobar". dlocate on the other hand is a
bit faster than "dpkg -S" and has other goodies too ... have a look.
have fun
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