Re: How can I find out what package installs xvditune?

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 08:29:03PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> I'm seting up a new system. xvidtune was here yesterday, today it's gone, or at
> least U can't find it.
> 
> How can I find out what package it belongs to, and where it dhould have been
> isntalled? 

	dpkg -S someglob

shows all packages that supply a path/to/file that contains your
'someglob' -- for example:

	% dpkg -S '/man*/apt'
	apt: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-get.8.gz
	apt-move: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-move.8.gz
	apt: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-cdrom.8.gz
	apt: /usr/share/man/man8/apt.8.gz
	apt: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-config.8.gz
	console-apt: /usr/share/man/man1/apt-find.1.gz
	apt: /usr/share/man/man5/apt.conf.5.gz
	base-config: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-setup.8.gz
	aptitude: /usr/share/man/man1/aptitude.1.gz
	apt: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-cache.8.gz

or you can point your browser to

	http://packages.debian.org/somePackageSubstring

to see packages available whose title/description contains that
substring.

-- 
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