Re: package searching & soundcard issues

[Defresne Sylvain <sylvain.defresne@enst-bretagne.fr>]

Hello,

* Mark Phillips (mitb@escape.ca) wrote:
> 
> hello,
> 
> question 1:
> does anyone know how to go about finding what package a file belongs to
> when the package is not currently installed?  i remember seeing a method
> to do this a little while back, i think it involved downloading and
> zgrepping a file called Packages.gz or something, but i can't seem to find
> the file anymore.

	The file you need to grep is Contents-<architecture>.gz that can
	be found on each Debain mirror in the distributions directory
	(something like /pub/debian/dists/unstable).

Bye
-- 
DEFRESNE Sylvain