On 07/07/11 at 09:43pm, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 13:39 +0100, kuLa wrote: > > On 07/07/11 13:17, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > > 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. > > > Yeee, many ways to the same goal but dlocate or apt-file aren't present > > in Debian by default like dpkg is :-) > > Sure, but that applies for a lot of software. :) I typically don't have a > problem to install packages I want, but YMMV. You make good points but it is always a useful policy to familiarize yourself with, and make a habit of recommending the packages guaranteed to be installed for portability/reliability. Also some of us are somewhat OCD and hate having ten packages installed with overlapping featuresets :P -- Liam
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