Re: finding a package name given a filename

[Eric Jacoboni <jaco@titine.fr.eu.org>]

Nuno Carvalho <nemanuel@student.dei.uc.pt> writes:

> > Is it possible, given a filename -- say: 'as86' -- to find the package 
> > from which it has been extracted ?
> 
>  dpkg --search as86

Thanks for your answer but your suggestion doesn't match my question :

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[titine]:~/$ dpkg --search as86
bin86: /usr/doc/bin86/examples/as86_encap
bin86: /usr/man/man1/as86.1.gz
bin86: /usr/bin/as86
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What i want to get is something like :

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[titine]:~/$ dpkg --fromwhich '/usr/bin/xemacs'

would give :

/usr/bin/xemacs: xemacs20-bin
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So, given a file, obtain the _package_ (the opposite of --contents, in 
fact...)
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