Finding out which package contains a file (Was Re: crt1.o? )

[Chris Walker <cjw1006@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

Gerry Jensen wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, David M Smith wrote:
> 
> > I've got /usr/lib/crt0.o, but what's crt1.o?  How does one find out in
> > general which package contains a given file?
> 
> dpkg -S crt1.o
> 
> This will find the file if it is already installed on your system from a
> Debian package.
> 
> If you don't have a certain file installed, and you want to find out which
> Debian package contains it, you can do a search on
> /debian/unstable/Contents (or /debian/stable/Contents) from a Debian ftp
> site.

Ah that is worth knowing - would it be worth putting an interface to it 
onto the web site perhaps and/or an option in dselect to do so (I havn't 
seen one if it is there already).

Chris
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