Re: How to find programs provided by package?
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Christopher Ray Martin wrote:
>
> Is there any way to get dpkg to tell you what files were in a package if
> you don't have the .deb archive? For example, I installed mctools-lite a
> long time ago, but I have no idea what programs were provided, and the
> documentation is VERY sparse...
>
dpkg -L package-name, will list all the files in the package
dpkg -S file-name, will show you which package that file is in.
HTH,
Shaya
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