Jeff Hornsberger wrote:
> Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few
> things in the debian package management system.
> 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is
> part of, what's the best way to find out what package you need?
There's a search engine at the Debian homepage that works quite well for
this. Start at http://packages.debian.org and then scroll down to the
bottom of the page.
> 2) Once you install a package, how can you get a listing of what files
> in the system belong to that package?
dpkg -L <name_of_package>
> 3) How can you tell what installed package (if any) a particular file in
> the system belongs to?
dpkg -S <name_of_file>
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