> If you grab the Contents-i386.gz (or whatever) file out of the archive - > it's in dists/stable or dists/unstable, depending - then you can grep > through that for whatever you need. I usually find that faster than the > available search tools on the web. debian provides all the necessary tools most of the time. dpkg -S file will tell you if a file exists in an installed package apt-cache search string will search package name and descriptions grepping the Contents file should only be necessary for files in uninstalled packages - and even then - there's probably a way :) cheers damien
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