Re: get package name from file name

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:37:57 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 10:24 +0100, kuLa wrote:
>> dpkg -S /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
> 
> cool. thx

And for packages that are not installed in your system you can use the 
online query ("package contents") which avoids the needing of installing 
"apt-file" :-):

http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=stable&section=all&arch=any&searchon=contents&keywords=%2Fusr%2Flib%2Flibxml2.so.2

Greetings,

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Camaleón