Re: Which Debian package has which Java package?

[Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
>>> shouldn't somebody (who knows how) build a database where I can search
>>> for a
>>> Java package and get back the name of the Debian package which contains
>>> it?
>>
>> Was it something like this you were looking for?
>>
>> http://fnords.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/java-contents/
>
> What about a simple
>
>    apt-file search <java package name>
>
> ? This worked for me perfectly in the past.

  This works when you're looking for a jar, but not when you're
looking for a class. And sometimes, jars might not contain the class
you thought it should.

  Cheers !

      Vincent